RE: Printing page 1 of X

I had a similar request from a client to have this information on the bottom of schedule attached to an invoice.

It is important to note the form I was printing was broken down into different sections (e.g. header, subheading, lines, sub total etc) using markers and I was using the PRINT FORM command with the area parameter.

So for each schedule I went through the print code twice. First time to work out total pages, second time to do actual printing.

First time through the loop I suppressed the page breaks & print form commands. I worked out total pixels per page using GET PRINTABLE AREA. Then instead of doing PRINT FORM command I kept a running page height total of the height of the form that would have been printed (e.g. instead of executing print form to print line I added 13 pixels to running page height total). When the running page height total exceeded the total pixels for page, I incremented a running total of the page numbers & reset the running page height total to zero & moved on to the next page etc
 
I hope this makes sense!

Regards

Jocelyn

>Client has asked for an addition (to an existing report that uses  
>PRINT FORM) of a 'Page 1 of X' label in the footer where X is the  
>total number of pages in the print job. Since the print out is an  
>invoice style job, the number of pages is based on the number of  
>records used. However, some of the lines can grow to accommodate text  
>as well.

>Only way I can think to do this is to print the entire job, grab the  
>total number of pages, cancel it, and then reprint it. However, if I  
>print the entire job, then call PRINT BREAK(*) instead of PRINT BREAK  
>then redo it again normally, nothing happens the second time.

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