I had a client who wanted the look and feel of windows input, but needed to print purchase orders on three-part paper with carbons.
I wrote a special program for them with header, detail, and footer lines. It is not nearly as nice as the windows output - but it does the job they required. Bill Cook Kent WA USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunnar Ekblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:13 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing on multi-part > Tellef! > > > > 1. I love your mail it proves my deepest believes Bill Gates are > responsible for a lot, being not backwards compatible is the most > serious one. Think about it! Even wasting the money of a small church! > > 2. I have still app's on 2.11 but when it comes to upgrade to 6.5++ I > refuse matrixprinters and go for Laser (Not to discourage you, I am only > to Lazy to find out how) > > 3. I will review the response to this so maybe even I can make some > of dot-matrix users happy with a conversion. > > > > I am out of order now by adding that it would heaven if windows would be > going by the same rules as the rest of the world (or is it only me) by > giving value to backwards compatibility! > > > > Hope you find a solution to your forms! > > > > I can also add in praise that R:BASE as all the backwards comptaibilty > you can ask for! > > > > Gunnar Ekblad > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tellef > Sent: den 31 januari 2003 14:50 > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing on multi-part > > > > > > Hallelujah, a client on 3.1 wants to upgrade to > > RBWin! It is a church, a small client, so they > > are interested in doing it for as little money as > > possible. > > > > It's a simple app, but they have 4 reports that > > are printed on various sizes of multi-part dot > > matrix forms, one of which is a tiny index-card > > sized form. I remember several years ago totally > > giving up on printing odd-size DM forms from > > Windows; luckily that client had the money to > > go to laser forms and their forms were all regular > > size anyway. > > > > Did I mention this is a church? There's no way > > they'll change the forms that they've been using > > since, well, since 'their leader' was born! So > > I'm just looking for assurance that (in 6.5++) > > that I will be able to print to the dot matrix > > on these funky-sized multipart forms. > > > > > > God bless! > > > > Karen > > > >
