Re: 4GL and LaserJet Printers

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 called "XPoint Corporation" out of Norcross Georgia. The National Account Manager that I had been in contact with was Robert E. Markey and his phone number was (404) 446-2764. I'm not sure how current any of this information is now but hopefully this will help. Alan.