Would a Printer Codes Panel help here? I received help in doing
something similar from you I think Tim some time ago.
Michael Iannantuoni
Tim Rude wrote:
Robert,
I'm redirecting this reply through the DP mailing list since others
may helpful info to weigh in with as well.
1) If you're entering data into a multiline text field on a panel, you
can bold selected words using the F6 key. If you then print that field
in a report going through DPSpool the words will be bolded as
expected. However, I suspect that you're actually wanting to know how
to apply the bold attributes to certain words via a formula, with a
report variable. That's a horse of another color. There isn't any easy
way to do this, that I know of. If you try to use bold text inside a
formula definition you get things like a "Word Not Recognized" error
and other problems.
And with multiline fields, you can't even use the ;;V trick of
embedding the ¥ and £ characters within the text. (;;V only works with
regular text fields such as A78, not A0A0 fields).
So if there's an easy way to apply bold to a word within a multiline
text field via a formula, I don't remember it.
2) It's my understanding that a WMF file is a vector-based drawing
consisting of directional instructions, as opposed to a bitmap drawing
consisting of a bunch of dots. It's possible that the text within your
WMF image is actually text - in other words the WMF instructions may
call for printing an actual character rather than a picture of a
character. If that's the case it could be that you simply don't have
the right font installed on your workstation. Just a guess here, since
the WMF handling that DPSpool does (as with all of the other graphic
formats) is actually done by Visual Basic routines that are part of
the programming language - a black box as it were. I programatically
send the command to print the graphic and Visual Basic takes over from
there. So how it takes a specific image file and converts it to
printable output is a mystery to me too.
Tim Rude
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert I. Kendall <mailto:[email protected]>
To: Tim Rude <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:58 AM
Hi Tim,
Thanks for bringing my attention to the dpspool designer help. I'm
customizing my pathology laboratory's reports in ways I never
thought possible with DP.
I've got a couple more questions:
1. Is there any way to bold selected words within a multiline text
field (AxA0)?
2. I am having problems printing a report with an image in .WMF
format. The image prints perfectly from all workstations but mine.
My workstation prints the image to a different font. Any suggestions?
Thanks for a great program and great support,
Robert Kendall
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