TECH TIP: Selecting Paper Bins for Each Page Sometimes you may want to print the first page of a report to the manual bin and then print the remaining pages to the default bin. You can use the Report.OnStartPage event to set the bin for any page. Example: procedure TForm1.ppReport1OnStartPageEvent(Sender:TObject); var lsBinName: String; begin if  Full Article…

TECH TIP: Printing to Continuous Paper Layout For continuous printing (for example a receipt) use Title/Summary and removing the Header/Footer. Set the PrintHeight of each to phDynamic. Layout the DetailBand to print a single line item. Set the margins to 0 or to the smallest that the printer driver will support (some printers have an unprintable  Full Article…

The exception ‘Canvas does not allow drawing’ is a Delphi exception that is raised when an application cannot get a valid handle to a Canvas associated with a bitmap, screen, or printer.   Trouble Shooting Memory/Resource LeaksWe recommend running the application using a tool, such as FastMM, or AQTime, that can check for memory/resource leaks.  Full Article…