RBDos of any flavor never printed to anything that was editable in word
unless it was a plain text file.
You can still do that, but you need to select a generic text Printer driver
to receive the output.
What exactly is difficult about editing an RTF file?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Thank you Razzak & Jim
I have played around with your suggestions.
I just recently up graded from Rbase 4.5 to Rbase 7.6.
Big Leap.
I was happy with 4.5 but Bill Gates doesn't like dos so I was glad that I
could update to 7.6, however. I used to be able to print a report to a
file
and open it up in Word and edit it.
With Rbase 7.6 it is a nightmare. I just don't think it should be so
complicated.
Is there anyone that does this.
Why does the report store in a pdf file. This seems to be the default. If
I
have it print as an rtf file it is difficult yo edit and a text file is
editable but very time consuming.
Thanks
Gary Weitzel
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim
Belisle
Sent: July-17-09 10:06 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Gary,
The easy ones are usually the only ones I can help on. I am usually the
one
who needs help. Have a great day.
Jim
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:06 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Thanks Jim.
It was too easy
I owe you one
Gary
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim
Belisle
Sent: July-17-09 9:32 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Gary,
I just tried printing one of my reports from the R prompt using the
following syntax and it worked:
print kayParkAllCost Where Model# = '682bg' OPTION RTF|FILENAME 682bg.RTF
It opened up in WORD when I double clicked on the file. Did you use the
FILENAME parameter with the PIPE?
Jim
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:08 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Jim thanks for your reply.
the syntax I used was PRINT comparables Where datesold > 12/31/2008 ORDER
By
datesold OPTION RTF
The report was created but I still could not open with Word or Wod Pefect
Thanks
Gary
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim
Belisle
Sent: July-17-09 8:21 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: printing a report to a file
Gary,
I believe you want the RTF option. See Help under the PRINT command for
the
syntax. See the example at the bottom of the page.
Jim
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:16 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - printing a report to a file
I am using R:BASE 7.6
I want to print a report, send it to a file that I can open and edit in
either Micro Soft Word or Word Perfect.
When I send my report to a file it turns out as a pdf file and cannot be
opened using Word or Word Perfect.
Gary Weitzel
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