RE: How to write 4GL reports which could be read by Word and cont

Posted in 2000

Topics: Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL

shahid.mehmood@aku.edu — Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:05:46 +0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF880B.F1522AD8 Content-Type: text/plain Why do you want to do all this thru 4GL? Simply print out a text file, and then load it in WORD format again as you like. Shahid Mehmood Software Designer II Information Systems Department The Aga Khan University Karachi Official:Y > -----Original Message----- > From: Joerg Spilker [SMTP:js@jetsys.de] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 08:58 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: How to write 4GL reports which could be read by Word and > contains > > Hello, > > has anyone experience in writing "non ASCII" reports in 4GL. I need to > use some simple attributes like different pitch sizes, bold, underlined > etc. These reports should be readable and modifiable by Word users. I > thought about writing RTF files but i=B4m not sure about how complex RTF > is. Can i find a RTF reference somewhere in the Web. Or maybe i should > write html and our people use Frontpage to show and modify the doc=B4s. I= > > just need some good idea. > > Greetings, Joerg ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF880B.F1522AD8 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>RE: How to write 4GL reports which could be read by Word and = contains </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Why do you = want to do all this thru 4GL? Simply = print out a text file, and then load it in WORD format again as you = like. Shahid Mehmood Software Designer II Information Systems = Department The Aga Khan = University Karachi Official:Y <UL> -----Original Message----- From:   Joerg Spilker [SMTP:js@jetsys.de] Sent:   Tuesday, March 07, 2000 08:58 To:     informix-list@iiug.org Subject:       = How to write 4GL reports which could = be read by Word and contains Hello, has anyone experience in writing = "non ASCII" reports in 4GL. I need to use some simple attributes like = different pitch sizes, bold, underlined etc. These reports should be readable = and modifiable by Word users. I thought about writing RTF files but = i=3DB4m not sure about how complex RTF is. Can i find a RTF reference = somewhere in the Web. Or maybe i should write html and our people use = Frontpage to show and modify the doc=3DB4s. I=3D just need some good idea. Greetings, Joerg </UL> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF880B.F1522AD8--

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vanloon — Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:06:49 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

<shahid.mehmood@aku.edu> wrote in message news:8a2dqt$bfi$1@news.xmission.com... > > > Why do you want to do all this thru 4GL? > Simply print out a text file, and then load it in WORD format again as you > like. I use this method for about 130 different reports for many years. Then use the macro facility in WORD to adjust the reports for a windows like look and feel. For that purpose in 4GL some markers may be added. For reports with graphics we use a report generator from Sybase called Infomaker. vanloon@wxs.nl

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M.J. Holley — Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:40:00 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

But with Word 2000, have you run into the asinine Unicode conversion problem with the 4GL reports? In previous versions, Word would simply bring the report in as a text file. Now it analyzes the entire report and prompts for a unicode conversion. This is annoying as hell. Have you found a way around this? mj

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Steve Wright — Thu, 9 Mar 2000 01:00:39 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <8a522e$3t2tc$1@reader1.wxs.nl>, vanloon <vanloon@wxs.nl> writes > > ><shahid.mehmood@aku.edu> wrote in message >news:8a2dqt$bfi$1@news.xmission.com... >> >> >> Why do you want to do all this thru 4GL? >> Simply print out a text file, and then load it in WORD format again as you >> like. > >I use this method for about 130 different reports for many years. >Then use the macro facility in WORD to adjust the reports for a windows like >look and feel. >For that purpose in 4GL some markers may be added. >For reports with graphics we use a report generator from Sybase called >Infomaker. > > >vanloon@wxs.nl > > If you want to use features such as bold, italics and underline then why not get the report to generate HTML. Word97 can read HTML. -- Steve Wright

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