Printer control

[blubarsky]

Most of my LabView (v 5.1) DAQ applications turn out one sort of graph
or other as part of the final report. However this has to be done
manually since the report is printed in portrait mode and the graph is
in landscape mode.

Is there a way to programmatically select print orientation, or a way to
fudge the effect?
Apparently LabView 6i doesn't have this built in.

Bill Lubarsky
Lamp Scientist
LCD Lighting, Inc.

[Alberto]

Hi Bill,

actually you have to add in the Print Report.vi a property node that sets the page orientation.
Here's the modified vi named Print Report+orientation.vi.
I always use it instead the original vi from NI.

Good luck,

Alberto

[RoyA]

Alberto,

The vi you uploaded will not run (broken run arrow). The errors listed are
Case Structure: Selector values are wrong type
Unbundle by name: Contains unwired or bad terminal
Unbundle by name: Contains unwired or bad terminal.

I am using LabVIEW 6.1 under Windoze 98

[Alberto]

Hi,
this is due by the fact I have installed the Report generation Toolkit of LV, if you don't have it, you cannot use my vi: I beg your pardon...
I recovered the equivalent vi from LV 5.1 and added the property for the page orientation.
Let me know if it works, eventually you can see how I did it and do the same on the Print Report.vi of LV 6.1,

Alberto