Re: GIF or JPG images in a report

On 8 Jun 98 at 22:44, Jacob Salomon wrote: > I have a client who wants GIF or JPG images included in some > reports. I have seen the article in Appendix-M of the FAQ and some > brave soul at my company tried it. Boioioioingggg... I haven't read the FAQ lately, so I can't remember what appendix M says. > I guess a better idea would be to have the 4GL report function > generate the text portion of the report but embed within the text > some commands and directives naming the gif file and some framing > and/or positioning info. Then the report could passed on to another > package which would reprint the text and draw the pictures as > specified in the generated report. > > Bottom Line: Can anyone tell me about such second-layer print > formatting products? There is this thing called "troff", you should be able to generate nroff or troff commands in your report for further formatting by UNIX. HTH. -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________