[DXBase] DXBase 2002 batch label printing bug

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:08:36 -0600

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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