We use lexmark printers which have "forms". The idea is that there two aspects to printing data on a form - one, how the data arrives at the printer and two, how the data is printed on the paper.
On the form-data side, we tell lexmark that the text on say line 5, from column 10-20 is named say "cust_barcode_field". Then on the form layout side, we postion the data field "cust_barcode_field" where-ever we want it - and this could be in a completely different place on the page to where it was originally - and also tell it that it's a barcode and which style to use - 128, 39 etc. Although it ties us to a paricular printer for the time being, it's been a great liberator in that complicated forms like customer invoices can now be sent out of universe as straight text with only functional formatting - we leave the decorative formatting to lexmark. Email me if you would like further info on how this is done. Andrew Gissing CTI Logistics ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
