In my neverending attempt to get a client to upgrade
to 7.6, I'm throwing all kinds of "but if you did you could
do this..." at them.  I had another idea but want to see
how it could be done.

I'm thinking of changing their monthy statement program
so that rather than printing right away it prints to PDF files,
and then they can print out in chunks whenever they want
plus obviously have history documents.   If I print to one big
PDF file, then they can bring up the file and print a page range.
But I'm worried the file might be huge and they would have trouble
searching for a client.

If instead they want individual PDF files, how would they be able
to print say 50 of them at once?   I can see several ways of 
doing it:

1.  They could bring up Adobe, easily highlight and open 50
documents.  Is there a menu option to say "print all documents"?
I can't find it.

2.  I could write a program in RBase to bring up a menu of PDF
files to choose from.  Then what?  Write a batch file that launches
Adobe with the print parameters, ie 50 different command lines?

3.  I could define an RBase report with some kind of control to 
display the PDF file?   This might be a problem if the address is
meant to fit in a window envelope and the report would change the
size of the PDF file displayed.

Any other ideas?

Karen

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