Need ideas for editing finished reports
Many of my reports are letters where the end users often need to make small
changes to the individual output documents, just before printing. For this
purpose, I need to export the finished reports e.g. to MS-Word.
This is not entirely painless, however.
The best solution I have found this far, is to use the Waler ExtraDevices to
export to RTF, then open the file with Word to allow editing. But the RTF
file leaves a lot to be desired - the report elements are not placed with
precision, line spacing is messy, the file does not distinguish between soft
and hard line shifts, etc.
Besides, not everybody has access to MS-Word. Export to PDF gives a more
accurate file, but this is even harder to edit.
It would be desirable to be able to provide a free, simple editor for the
purpose of editing the final reports, with precision and ideally integrated
with my software. Any ideas are welcome...
Wordpad is a possibility but it does not seem to preserve any graphics.
Perhaps OpenOffice could be a candidate - anyone tried this combination with
success?
Could the end-user designer in RB be used for this purpose somehow, by
feeding the finished report back into the designer as a template containing
only static elements?
Using RB 7.04 Enterprise.
Best,
Svein O. Mytting
changes to the individual output documents, just before printing. For this
purpose, I need to export the finished reports e.g. to MS-Word.
This is not entirely painless, however.
The best solution I have found this far, is to use the Waler ExtraDevices to
export to RTF, then open the file with Word to allow editing. But the RTF
file leaves a lot to be desired - the report elements are not placed with
precision, line spacing is messy, the file does not distinguish between soft
and hard line shifts, etc.
Besides, not everybody has access to MS-Word. Export to PDF gives a more
accurate file, but this is even harder to edit.
It would be desirable to be able to provide a free, simple editor for the
purpose of editing the final reports, with precision and ideally integrated
with my software. Any ideas are welcome...
Wordpad is a possibility but it does not seem to preserve any graphics.
Perhaps OpenOffice could be a candidate - anyone tried this combination with
success?
Could the end-user designer in RB be used for this purpose somehow, by
feeding the finished report back into the designer as a template containing
only static elements?
Using RB 7.04 Enterprise.
Best,
Svein O. Mytting
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