Had the following error appear on a Visual FoxPro Application running under Citrix:-

Error Number: 1957

Error message: Error accessing printer spooler.

I found out that this error was caused because sometimes FoxPro cannot determine the default printer.  So a work around was to use the winspool.drv and force FoxPro to the Default Printer name.

Example code as follows (I am defaulting to Win2PDF if no printer is found as this is installed on all our Citrix clients):-

PUBLIC cDefaultPrinter

UseStdPrintDefault()

SET PRINTER TO NAME (cDefaultPrinter)

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PROCEDURE UseStdPrintDefault

DECLARE INTEGER GetDefaultPrinter IN winspool.drv;

   STRING  @ pszBuffer,;

   INTEGER @ pcchBuffer

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nBufsize = 250

cPrinter = REPLICATE(Chr(0), nBufsize)

= GetDefaultPrinter(@cPrinter, @nBufsize)

cDefaultPrinter = SUBSTR(cPrinter, 1, AT(Chr(0),cPrinter)-1)

lnPrinterCount = APRINTERS(oPrinters)

FOR lnPCount = 1 TO lnPrinterCount

IF oPrinters[lnPCount,1] = 'Win2PDF'

SET PRINTER TO NAME "Win2PDF"

ENDIF

ENDFOR

RETURN

ENDPROC