RE: 4gl and MS Word

aspiring immigrant wrote > Thanks Rick ,Colin, > Rick , there are wordperfect templates and variable data in templates > are mergecodes. 4gl fills these mergecodes at runtime. > > Colin - That was a very interesting solution. Can you tell me where I > should start with it ? What are PCL Overlays and what do I need to get > there ? I will send sample filesunder separate cover. > Also by lot of time , do you mean the time taken to print a document > or the time to implement it ? MS Word generates a file of approx 50-100k per single page document. And this takes processing time. Word chokes when you get to about 200 documents. PCL or postscript take about 2-5k and most Unix servers can cope with 10s of thousands of these. > Any detail would be great help. > > Thanks > > "Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> wrote in message news:<bafful$6mj$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > If you have got plenty of time no problem. This is the best way to go > if you do not want scalability and robustness. > > My suggestion is forget mail merge of any kind and use PCL overlays on > a laser printer. No need to complicate things with an additional > complication, > use 4gl direct to a networked printer. > > Colin Bull > c.bull@videonetworks.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of aspiring immigrant > > Sent: 20 May 2003 20:44 > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: 4gl and MS Word > > > > > > Hi Guru's > > I am exploring the idea of trying to print letters to MS Word instead > > of WordPerfect for Unix.I know its kinda weird to ask this question as > > the operating systems itself is different for each. However...Has > > anyone tried the same. > > Present system generates from the Informix application and 4gl merges > > data and template at runtime and prints the letter using Wordperfect > > for Unix. > > Anyways to print it in MS WORD ? > > > > Thanks in Adv. > >