Re: page layout, graphics to printers from i4gl reports.
Posted in 1994
I posted to the "Fancy:Report Output in 4GL" some comments covering this, FYI. The shading of alternate lines has been acomplished best with Post Script routines, which I have somewhere in a header file somewhere. If you're interested let me know, and I'll find somewhere to FTP them so you can hack with them. I ran into a program a couple of years ago written ( hacked ) by many programmers that would take streamed input and produce reports, like TROFF, but the output was Post Script directly from the C program. It needs work, and if you're into linked lists and some code changing, let me know. The basic PS routines are worth the price alone :-) You'll lose plenty of hours of sleep on this one. I'm convinced It was written on Mars. It worked on a Sun workstation, whether or not it will work on your platform is another story. I've just move to new offices and my source library is still in a box, but will dig it out next week if anyone is interested. Tim Schaefer The Computer Business Company Inxutil@aol.com