Saving to a Text File

rbuser

Hi All,

I am using RB 4.21 Pro.Planning to upgarde to RB 5.5 soon.
I need to save my reports to a text file.

The report that save to the text file should have the exact layout and data
as the original one(the one which u see when u preview the reports)
My reports r quite complex like they have subreports,report viewer.I tired
to use the text pipleline and print to text but this also not useful.Then
print to file setup option does not show subreports and other components so
if I use them I cannot print them.Is there any other method that I can use
to print to a text file.I also tired setting print to file option on on the
print dialogue box then try to print to text file and report emulation text
file.But still the data is inconsistant.(Like some data gets truncated,out
of alignment,some data does not appear at all).I beleive all this options r
useful when u want to print to a file , but what if I want to save to a text
file.Then what do I do.

What I want is , able to get the exact data,layout of my report (no matter
what component I am using whether is subreport,region should not affect my
data output) when I save to a text file.Will using a 3rd party tool help
solve this problem.

I hope u can help me solve this problem.I need to solve this problem as soon
as possible because our customers require this option - to save to a text
file.

Thanx!!

Regards,
Leena.
Software Developer
Creative.

rbuser

If the users need layout the same as the RB report, they're viewing at it
(rather than feeding it to a spreadsheet or some other program) and what
they really need is probably a PDF file. I use the TExtraDevices component
from http://www.waler.com to generate PDFs (or several other formats).

Richard

rbuser

Hi Richard,

Is the output to a pdf file in layout terms quite conisistent.ie similar to
the one when we preview and print the report.
Thanx !! for the quick response.

Leena

rbuser

Yes, it looks very good.