Chrome 56 has greatly improved printing

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Jan 26, 2017, 6:13:08 PM1/26/17
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Printing in ParaSQL via Chrome will be improved dramatically with Chrome 56+.
Prior to this, print scaling was not under your control and calculated by Chrome somewhat randomly making consistent print size almost impossible to achieve for reports of varying length. Chrome 56 now has a new hidden print scaling feature designed to fix this. Soon this will become a non-hidden, standard feature of Chrome (we expect).

To try it, 
  1. in the Chrome menu go to Help > About Google Chrome and verify you are running v56 or higher
  2. then paste the following into your browser's URL: chrome://flags/#print-scaling
  3. choose Enable and then restart chrome
  4. in Chrome go to Print > More Settings  and you should now see a Scale optionVerify this is set to 100.
  5. in ParaSQL select your App Canvas, then go to Format > Layout options... and set the Width Type to Fixed. (this requirement may be removed in a future ParaSQL release)
  6. in ParaSQL go to File > App Settings... and verify the width. Don't change it as this time, test first. We have had success at 950 width (96px = 1 inch). Initial testing shows that if you go too high the scaling engine messes up page breaks but otherwise seems to work well.

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