BUG: NewPage Method Followed by EndDoc Method Prints Blank Page

• Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation, Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

If a call is made to the EndDoc method of the Printer Object (or the application is closed) after having issued the NewPage method, a page is ejected from the printer regardless of whether any actual printing has taken place.

This is contrary to the behavior of Visual Basic 4.0, as well as the online Help in Visual Basic 5.0 for the EndDoc method, which states the following:

   If EndDoc is invoked immediately after the NewPage method, no additional
   blank page is printed.

RESOLUTION

To work-around this problem, do not call the NewPage method until you know you are going to print something on the page.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new project.

2. Add a CommandButton to Form1.

3. Add the following code to Form1:

         Private Sub Command1_Click()
            Printer.Print "Page 1"
            Printer.NewPage
            Printer.EndDoc
         End Sub
   
   

4. Press the F5 key to run the project.

5. Click the button. Note that two pages are printed. The first page prints as expected, but it is followed by a blank page.

REFERENCES

Visual Basic 5.0 Online Help for the EndDoc Method

Keywords          : vb5all VBKBPrinting
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug