Tom,
Have you considered creatng your data using PAGEMODE.
There is an excellent example in techinal document
790.
My copy was found as in a subdirectory of the rbase
for windows 6.5++ directory.
--- Thomas J Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ** 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]
>
>
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