Printing to RTF and/or PDF
We've been playing with both the Pragnaan and TExtradevices components to
achieve the above results. The reports by design have to include TppRichText
fields. From the start neither package handles it well. We have been in
contact with both vendors, and while the folks over at Pragnaan fixed
several bugs in their package (It works great with Word 97 / Word 8), they
seem to be less than helpful in fixing bugs found when attempting to open
.RTF output in either Word 9 or 10 (2000 or XP).
To date we have only gotten one reply from Waler to download the most recent
version and he'd get back to me. That was two weeks ago.
Does anyone know of a package that does what we need (Export RB file to .RTF
which can then be opened CORRECTLY, without blowing up formatting)? I'd hate
to drop RB, but if I can't get output into Word, I may have to. (God help me
if I have to go back to Crystal Reports.........)
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Christopher Yoder
Sr. Programmer
Steven J. Baum, P.C.
achieve the above results. The reports by design have to include TppRichText
fields. From the start neither package handles it well. We have been in
contact with both vendors, and while the folks over at Pragnaan fixed
several bugs in their package (It works great with Word 97 / Word 8), they
seem to be less than helpful in fixing bugs found when attempting to open
.RTF output in either Word 9 or 10 (2000 or XP).
To date we have only gotten one reply from Waler to download the most recent
version and he'd get back to me. That was two weeks ago.
Does anyone know of a package that does what we need (Export RB file to .RTF
which can then be opened CORRECTLY, without blowing up formatting)? I'd hate
to drop RB, but if I can't get output into Word, I may have to. (God help me
if I have to go back to Crystal Reports.........)
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Christopher Yoder
Sr. Programmer
Steven J. Baum, P.C.
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Comments
Try using PsRBExportDevices - Export Devices component from Pragnaan. I
used this and I was able to convert to PDF and RTF file. You can download
from the path http://www.pragnaan.com/rb/index.html
Rajeev R
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Christopher Yoder
Sr. Programmer
Steven J. Baum, P.C.
we are aware of. Try to work with them to resolve this issue as they are the
experts in creating the specific device output for rtf for our draw command
architecture. Another option is to create your own device which does create
the desired output that is formatted the way you would like it for MS Word.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
info@digital-metaphors.com
I'm just curious what things are blowing up. I am using the WPTools stuff
for
the RTF with the newest Pragnaan stuff (they just added WPTools support)
and I have not seen a problem yet. Is it any RTF or could you give a
example
that creates a problem. I could try it with the WPTools RTF and see if it
has
the same problem.
Thanks,
Joseph Gordon
we've noticed with the Pragnaan stuff.
Included is a changed demo unit for the base DM reporting demo #28 that
produces the main error we have been able to notice. When viewing the
Spanning.rtf file in Word 97 the output matches the RB output perfectly, yet
on Word 2000 and Word 2002 the bottom line of text in the generated text box
either chops off part or all of the bottom line of text. The line
information is still accessible in the text box, but in order to view the
data the text box needs to be manually scrolled down. I am still waiting to
hear back from Pragnaan on a solution that seems to work in recent version
of Word.
Also included is a file called "Damaged-Letter.rtf" which when opened on
Word 2000 and Word 2002 would cause Word to crash when the page is scrolled
down to the bottom. Updating to the latest service pack for Office XP (Word
2002) stopped the crashing from occurring in Word 2002. I cannot verify
whether or not updating to the latest service pack for Office 2000 fixed the
problem or not as the update process for Office 2000 ate the installation of
Word 2000 and I had to reinstall the pre-service pack version to be able to
open any document.
Let me know if you can duplicate any of these with WPTools RTF.
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Michael Simons
Software Programmer
Steven J. Baum P.C.
msimons@mbaum.com
In keeping you informed of what's happening, we are on this case. We are not
seeing the Word 2K crash here but we can see that the text at bottom is not
shown.
We should have a reply for you by end of this week.
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Girish Patil
Pragnaan Software
http://www.pragnaan.com
like you need to apply the update.
We are looking at the hidden text issue.
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Girish Patil
Pragnaan Software
http://www.pragnaan.com
we've heard from you...any news?...we're expecting to go live with our
software as early as next week.
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Michael Simons
Software Programmer
Steven J. Baum P.C.
msimons@mbaum.com
Word XP but not in Word 2K. We are looking into it and should be able to
suggest a solution in a couple of days.
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Girish Patil
Pragnaan Software
http://www.pragnaan.com
getting the fixed version shortly.
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Girish Patil