Re: How to write 4GL reports which could be read by Word and contains attributes like different pitches, bold letters etc

irwin_goldstein@my-deja.com wrote: > PCL commands are pretty easy to write in 4GL and the resulting file can > be either printed on an HP compatible printer, that´s what i´m doing just now. Holding PCL and other printers control sequences in a table and using these sequences during report generation. But as the control sequences are put into the file during report generation, i´m not able to print these files later on printers with an other technology. > or converted to a PDF > file using a utility such as pcl2pdf available from Visual Software at > www.visual.co.uk. I've had some very good results using pcl2pdf and > another tool from Visual (FormsElectric). Using these tools I was able this sound goods. But we also have the need to let our users edit the files later and they all can use word. And to edit PDF files, i need extra software. Greetings, Joerg Spilker