** Reply to message from "David M. Blocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:25:40 -0400
David, thanks for your reply. > Is there a reason you can't output to PDF file, which I'm sure Adobe > Framemaker can read? The RBase output needs some editing before it's ready for FrameMaker, and while it's possible to use the Acrobat touchup text tool to do this, it's much too cumbersome. I need the ability to do global changes, etc. (There are some other workflow issues which make PDF impractical here; among other things, the current FrameMaker workflow expects to see an ascii MML (Maker Markup Language) file.) > Is this email Razzak sent to you on April 30 [regarding Print to Text File > setup] relevant? I've spent a bit of time asking myself that very question, and the answer unfortunately seems to be no. The workflow requires the data to be put down line by line, as I've defined it in the report. What the Print to Text fixed length setting does, so far as I can tell, is put the data down side by side. So what the report defines as two detail lines: Data_A Data_B gets output as a single text line, with the space between the two elements determined by Data_A's fixed length: Data_A Data_B The other two options, comma or tab delimited, are definitely not the answer. If there was a way to specify newlines in the Print to Text File setup, that might work. But so far as I can see, that's not an option here. Each report section gets a new line, but there is no provision for new lines within a section. I should mention too that in Print to Text File setup, the controls in each report section are shown only as Label1, Label11, Label3, etc. so there's the added labor of figuring out which report element is Level1 etc. in addition to making sure that all the fixed length values are proper. The maintenance of all this would be a fertile source of error. (I've got about a dozen of these to set up, and some are quite complex.) It was all so much easier in RB DOS . . . Razzak, we need a "Database Publishing Output" option! Tom Hawley New York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
