Re: Printing Especial Effects in INFORMIX-4GL

m.mejia@mail.codetel.net.do (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22CAM_Inform=E1tica=2C_S._A.=22?= ) wrote: >What is the best way for printing especial effects (Bold, Italic,...) in >INFORMIX-4GL? > >I wouldn't like to do this for specific printers, using escape sequences, >avoiding the portability of my applications... > >I'll appreciate your answer! > >Melvin Perez Cedano >Vice-President/Systems Development >CAM Informatica, S. A. > Please refer to the Power-4gl toolset. You can obtain a demo program which illustrates bold, italic, and underline printing which is independent of printer types. Printer types are set up in database tables. The package can automatically adjust the print sizes to make a report fit a given page size on a given printer. This is done by storing printer information. You only have to give the report width and the report will print to fit the page (possibly by condensing the print or printing landscape. See: http://www.strengur.is/~frantz/pow4gl.html The demo package can be retrieved from there or by anonymous ftp at: strengur.is/pub/powdemo.tar.Z Note the demo contains a subset of the package (including source code). Although it is from an older version, it shows the basic capabilities. Contact me for more information, -- John H. Frantz (frantz@centrum.is)