Re: 4GL and LaserJet Printers

In article <4bpght$qha@jan.et.byu.edu>, Alan Higley <alan_higley@byu.edu> wrote: >dwolt@cts.com (Dave Woltkamp) wrote: >>Good Morning! >> >>Hope everyone had a nice holiday! I have a client that has requested >>several reports that require a lot of page formatting. Things like >>boxes, shading, proportional fonts, use of a few soft fonts, etc. >> >>Before I take on the task of trying to write my own, I though I'd >>check the group to see if anyone has written any functions to handle >>this type of formatting. I would also be interested in any commercial >>products that might be available. >> >>The only hitch is that these programs must run in 4GL on Unix >>exclusively. No Windows, OS/2, etc.. >> >>Any help will be appreaciated! >> >>Thanks - Dave >> > >Dave, > >Having written some pretty hairy 4gl code for doing font changes, shaded >boxes and lines, I would highly recommend that you first look at the >commercial software to help with this arduous task! Over a year ago, we >looked at a product called "REFORM" that would take standard 4gl report >output and reformat it using lines, font changes, shaded boxes and some >graphics! It ran under UNIX and supported output to the HP LaserJets! >We decided that since most of our reports are internal, we didn't need >such a program. I was quite impressed with how easy it was to use. > >Back in September of 1994, this package, "REFORM", was sold by a company We've used a produt called JETFORM here with great success for similar projects. Gary Mitchell Mitch@lexmark.com