Monday, September 30, 2002
From The Edge: Printing Reports in R:BASE 7.0 for Windows Section: Report Designer and Report Runtime Chapter: Running R:BASE Your Way! Platform: R:BASE 7.0 for Windows Build: 1.855xRT04 and Higher Along with built-in Barcodes, Images and PDF Writer, R:BASE 7.0 for Windows Report Designer Print Output options include the following: . Default Printer . Text File . Report Emulation Text File . Portable Document Format (PDF) . HTML Document . Rich Text Format (RTF) Document . MS Excel Document . GIF Image File . JPEG Image File . Bitmap (BMP) File . Enhanced Metafile . Windows Metafile The Next Generation R:BASE 7.0 for Windows allows you to automate your entire print report options in a single command line. The traditional PRINT command has been enhanced to include OPTION parameters. Example 01: Printing to Screen (Traditional Method) PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... Example 02: Printing to Windows Default Printer (Traditional Method) OUTP PRINTER PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OUTP SCREEN Example 03: Printing to Windows Default Printer (New Approach) PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OPTION PRINTER Example 04: Printing Report as BMP File PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OPTION BMP + |FILENAME D:\Temp\Temp.BMP|BACKGROUND_COLOR WHITE + |BACKGROUND_TYPE TILE|OPEN ON Example 05: Printing Report as GIF File PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OPTION GIF + |FILENAME D:\Temp\Temp.GIF|BACKGROUND_COLOR WHITE + |BACKGROUND_TYPE TILE|OPEN ON Example 06: Printing Report as JPG File PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OPTION JPG + |FILENAME D:\Temp\Temp.JPG|BACKGROUND_COLOR WHITE + |BACKGROUND_TYPE TILE|OPEN ON Example 07: Printing Report as PDF File PRINT ReportName WHERE ... ORDER BY ... OPTION PDF + |FILENAME D:\Temp\Temp.PDF|BACKGROUND_COLOR WHITE + |AUTHOR Put_Your_Name_Here|OPEN ON PDF version of this technical document is also available at: From The Edge: http://www.razzak.com/fte (Powered by R:Tango) Very Best Regards, Razzak. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
