[DXBase] DXBase 2002 batch label printing bug

2002年1月27日 09:11:41 -0600

Bill,
Here is the "answer" to what you are seeing... when you
are in the "Print Options" window and you have the 
Export Media/ Direct to ... as being the "Printer" ...
EACH time that you open up the file to print the 1st page,
and then the 2nd page, and so on -- you MUST "each time"
be sure and go into that "Select" button - to tell the
program that you are not starting at the first label on
the first sheet... IF you will each time - do this, you
will "not" miss any labels...
The BETTER way of doing the printing of the labels (page by
page - one at a time) would be to have the 
Export Media/ Direct to .. as being "Preview" ... that way
when you are in the Preview window, you can see how many pages
you have of labels to print - and you can "select" each page
one-by-one and print them one-by-one ... and using this better
method - you "never" will miss any labels...
I "was" able to "re-create" what you have been seeing - BUT ONLY if
I "forgot" to tell the program (each time I brought the file up
for the next page and the next page) that the first page's
starting position was not at the very first label...
Hope that this helps.
73 de Joe WA6AXE
"William Hein, AA6TT" wrote:
>> You have to print the pages one by one to reproduce the error (the only way I can print labels on my printer).
>> Bill AA6TT
>> On Sun, 27 January 2002, "Joseph A. Glockner" wrote:
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> > Bill,
> >
> > I just tried a sample of 66 QSO labels that were in my
> > Labels Pending database - using the standard "5160-3q.lbl"
> > label file -- with the "initial" printing "pattern" as being
> > Horizontal top-to-bottom going to the right..
> >
> > I printed all 66 of the test labels ok..
> >
> > Then I changed the printing "pattern" - just in case there
> > might be a bug in the Combit portion of the software.. Changing
> > the pattern to all of the available means - made no difference.
> > I always printed all 66 of the labels.
> >
> > I guess - since I can not reproduce what you see there - is
> > what is the exact name of the label file that you are using?
> >
> > 73 de Joe WA6AXE
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "William Hein, AA6TT" wrote:
> > >
> > > I discovered what I believe is a bug in DXBase 2002's batch QSO label printing routine.
> > >
> > > I am using a standard DXBase 3 QSO label design on Avery 5960 (5160) label sheets. To keep the label sheets from jamming in my HP printer, I print one page at a time.
> > >
> > > If my first 5960 sheet (10 rows by 3 columns) for a print run starts somewhere beyond the first label, say in the 10th position (row 4 col 1), the first 21 labels in my print run are printed OK. When I print the second page, using the print range page 2 to page 2, DXBase 2002 starts with label number 31 in the QSO label database and prints 30 labels on the sheet. Labels 22 to 30 are NEVER PRINTED, however DXBase updates the QSO records to show QSL S and SENT DATE for these not-printed labels. DXbase should have started page 2 with label 22 and so on.
> > >
> > > I have been catching up on a lot of QSLing the past month. Several thousand direct and buro cards in dozens of batches. DXBase has probably marked as sent several hundred QSLs which are in fact not sent. What a mess.
> > >
> > > Bill AA6TT
> > >
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