Re: 4gl and MS Word

Hi: I'm using PCL overlays from www.visual.co.uk product Forms Electric. US$75.'' . The licencse is for the PC generating the Macro no for end-users or servers. It's a great product BUT you need to create the overlay in a Windows 95/98/Me machine (no NT,200,XP). You can use your favorite program (Corel, Word, Photopaint, etc) send to a HP PCL5 or PCL5e printer (NO PCL6), the program captures the output and generates the OVL file wich can copy to your 4GL server (linux/aix,solaris,etc). In your 4gl code you only need a simple escape sequence to load the page (in every page header ). You can use diferent overlays for odd/even pages. The spped is almost the same because the overlay is send only once to the printer and stored as a macro in the printer memory. HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: <keepitliteus@yahoo.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:54 AM Subject: Re: 4gl and MS Word > Thanks Rick ,Colin, > Rick , there are wordperfect templates and variable data in templates > are mergecodes. 4gl fills these mergecodes at runtime. > > Colin - That was a very interesting solution. Can you tell me where I > should start with it ? What are PCL Overlays and what do I need to get > there ? > Also by lot of time , do you mean the time taken to print a document > or the time to implement it ? > Any detail would be great help. > > Thanks > > "Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> wrote in message news:<bafful$6mj$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > > If you have got plenty of time no problem. This is the best way to go > > if you do not want scalability and robustness. > > > > My suggestion is forget mail merge of any kind and use PCL overlays on > > a laser printer. No need to complicate things with an additional > > complication, > > use 4gl direct to a networked printer. > > > > Colin Bull > > c.bull@videonetworks.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > > > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of aspiring immigrant > > > Sent: 20 May 2003 20:44 > > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > > Subject: 4gl and MS Word > > > > > > > > > Hi Guru's > > > I am exploring the idea of trying to print letters to MS Word instead > > > of WordPerfect for Unix.I know its kinda weird to ask this question as > > > the operating systems itself is different for each. However...Has > > > anyone tried the same. > > > Present system generates from the Informix application and 4gl merges > > > data and template at runtime and prints the letter using Wordperfect > > > for Unix. > > > Anyways to print it in MS WORD ? > > > > > > Thanks in Adv. > > >