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Printing Extra Form Feed At The End Of Each P
DocumentID: 645613
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:07 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer would like to know the reason why IBM PC LAN sends an extra form feed at the end of each print job. He would also like to know why when he selects Y/N for the suppress top of forms on last page option, he still gets an extra form feed. The user would prefer not using the /NFF for his application. Solutions: Many networks send an extra form feed at the end of a print job. In some cases, the WordPerfect program is able to find some way to suppress it. However, this causes problems for other applications that are not intelligent enough to send a form feed at the end of the print job. When the user selects Yes to Suppress Top of Form at the End of Print Job, he is asking WordPerfect not to send the last form feed of a print job. However, since the WordPerfect program uses formatting options that are foreign to many software applications, it must reset the printer to a mode that the other applications can understand. When the user is doing this with an HP LaserJet printer, WordPerfect handles the sequence of events as follows. The body of the job is sent, the last form feed is suppressed, and then the reset printer codes are sent. Because the last page has not been printed, the printer sees that as information still in the buffer. This causes the printer to print the last page before resetting itself. Then the network sends a form feed command which gives the user a blank piece of paper. In some cases, the WP program is able to set up another queue just for WordPerfect print jobs, and that solves the problem for many users. However, please understand that this is not a WordPerfect problem.

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