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RE: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports

Posted By: Norton, Graeme
Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 5:22 a.m.

In Response To: Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports (Doug Lawry)

If you want to pay for a product, as we have done then there is pcl2pdf
from Visual Software - http://www.visual.co.uk.

Graeme Norton
Broadcast Software Development Manager
Phone: 0113 2227457
Mobile: 07764 256655

-----Original Message-----
From: classics-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:classics-bounces@iiug.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Lawry
Sent: 08 May 2007 09:59
To: classics@iiug.org
Subject: Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports [2472]

That's very neat. However, if you are not using Aubit4GL, you can create
PCL
output and pipe it through GhostPCL which can be freely downloaded from:

http://www.artifex.com/downloads/

Another approach is to create XML and apply an XSLT to transform it into
a
Word
or PDF document. I recommend Altova Stylevision for this.

Regards,
Doug Lawry
www.douglawry.dyndns.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Aubury" <mike.aubury@aubit.com>
To: <classics@iiug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports [2471]

Aubit4GL can create PDF reports

(and Text, and CSV all from the same report - with only very minor
modifications ;-)

main

start report r1 to convertible
output to report r1 (1,2)
finish report r1

start report r1 to convertible
output to report r1 (1,2)
finish report r1 converting to "myfile1.pdf" AS "PDF" using "layout1"

start report r1 to convertible
output to report r1 (1,2)
finish report r1 converting to "myfile2.pdf" AS "PDF" # uses default
layout

start report r1 to convertible
output to report r1 (1,2)

finish report r1 converting to many

# Special - for use with layout_engine

convert report r1 to "orig.output" AS "SAVE"

convert report r1 to "myfile3.pdf" AS "PDF" # uses default layout

convert report r1 to "myfile4.txt" AS "TXT" # uses default layout
free report r1

end main

report r1(a,b)
define a,b integer
format
on every row
print a," ",b
end report

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aubit4gl

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 07:40, CHANDAN G wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have used 4gl reports to generate xls and text files. Is there any
> procedure to Generate PDF files, word documents through the report
writer?
>
> Thanks
> Chandan
>
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
  CHANDAN G -- Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 2:40 a.m.
  • Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
    Amitava Chakraborty -- Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 2:46 a.m.
  • Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
    Mike Aubury -- Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 3:05 a.m.
    • Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
      Doug Lawry -- Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 4:59 a.m.
      • RE: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
        Norton, Graeme -- Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 5:22 a.m.
        • RE: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
          Jean Gidcumb -- Wednesday, 9 May 2007, at 8:41 a.m.
  • Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
    Joe Vigil -- Thursday, 17 May 2007, at 1:27 p.m.
    • Re: PDF report preparation from 4gl reports
      Joe Vigil -- Thursday, 17 May 2007, at 1:38 p.m.

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