Bill One way I've approached this in the past is to write the text (using an mbx) to a blank mappable table then open it as a map window and place it in the layout. Even done it with nice coloured grids etc..
Steve McArthur LLPG Manager London Borough of Hackney Tel: 020 8356 2061 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 October 2004 21:50 To: MapInfo-L Subject: MI-L Printing Text Documents with MapInfo I've got to modify an MBX application to print a page of legal fineprint following the output of one to many maps. The maps are easy, but how do you produce a neatly-formatted page of text? This page has about 1000 words of boilerplate text and I've got to add some run-time generated summary text as well. The output goes directly to the printer on the client machines, and I can't assume they have MS Word, Adobe PDF, or even a web browser. The only thing I can think of is to paste the boilerplate text into a layout window, line by line (because strings can't be longer than 255 chars), and then save it as a workspace. At run time, I could then open this layout, drop in my additional text at the top of the page, and print the page. But the prospect of manually laying out the fixed text seems a bit daunting. Does anyone know if there is a better way, or a tool that can move a Word document into a frame that could be dropped on a layout? - Bill Thoen --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13640 London Borough of Hackney may exercise its right to intercept any communication on its networks - for more information see http://www.hackney.gov.uk/email_disclaimer.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 13656
