REPORTS_NO_DUMMY_PRINTER
environment variableThis environment variable, together with other printer and display environment variables, specifies whether the systems surface and fonts should be used instead of the printers.
Valid Values |
TRUE| not set |
Default |
|
REPORTS_NO_DUMMY_PRINTER
is set by default and is required
to be set at all times. If it is not set (as a result of being user-modified),
and there is no valid printer, error REP-1800
is raised. Alternatively, you could use TK_PRINT_STATUS
when you have no valid printer. A valid printer response is required by
Oracle Reports to generate output, even if you are generating to a file.
Beginning with Oracle Reports 10g, if the uiprint.txt
file does not contain a valid entry (that is, no valid printer is defined),
but REPORTS_NO_DUMMY_PRINTER
is set, Oracle Reports uses screenprinter.ppd
specified in uiscreenprint.txt
. You should unset this environment
variable only if you do not want the screenprinter.ppd
driver
to be used by Oracle Reports when there is no valid printer.
The limitation of this approach is that these reports might lose their formatting when viewed from another system if it is not identical to the system where the report was designed. Furthermore, when this report is printed, the formatting would not be correct because the fonts and their metrics differ.
Printing on UNIX requires some setup and configuration to create the proper
printing environment. For detailed information about printing your reports
on UNIX, refer to the chapter "Printing on UNIX with Oracle Reports"
in the Oracle Application Server Reports Services Publishing Reports
to the Web manual, available on the Oracle
Technology Network Oracle Reports Documentation page (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/reports.html
).
REPORTS_DEFAULT_DISPLAY
environment variable
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