Re: How to print graphs in reports?

I wouldn't even think about doing this in 4GL or SQL reports. You need to get the data into a spreadsheet (Wingz possibly, or even Excel) and process the data there. It depends on how often you are doing this, is it one off, or as part of a system. I quite often use SQL or 4GL to produce a file to be loaded into a spreadsheet for processing. It beats networking based solutions every time. > > A friend of mine wants to know how he might be able to print real graphs > in 4GL (or maybe ACE) reports. That is, his database is full of > numericalengineering data, and he'd like to be able to plot graphs in > his reportsto display those data. > > Is there any way to do this? Obviously one can plot "ascii graphs" like > this... > > xxxx > xxxxx > xxxxxxxxxx > xxxxxxx > xxxx > xxxx > xxx > > but I am pretty sure that he needs better resolution than this. Is it > feasible to have the report output be a postscript file? I imagine this > would mean figuring out all the control characters/commands in > postscriptand having the report print them all out. > > I feel that many many people must have needed to do things like this in > the past, and I wonder how they did it? Thanks in advance for any hints > ... > > Paul > > Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 0628-72154 Fax 0628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc