Re: pretty printer output

gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) posted: > Sebastian v. Bomhard (svb@Space.NET) wrote: > : Don't scream if you read this: Drawing lines and boxes is not a job for > : database programmers. I use what is there: tbl and troff (actually groff). > : There is all you need, and portable between printers, too (Ok, not very > : many printers, I have to admit). > <clipped...> > > I used tyo think this until several customers offered big $$$ for the > capability or threatend to look for other softare if I couldn't produce > reports that looked like they were comming from a word processor. > > Ther easiest way I've found short of writing the same report many times > for many printers is to set up a table with all of the capabilities of a > particular printer in one record. <clipped...> > > Nothing worthwhile is easy. This is definately not easy. Buy WordPerfect for UNIX. Make pretty output in WP with merge fields. Output the desired Informix information into a text file. Run a WP macro from within a 4GL program to merge the text file with the WP document. Tada!