word doc to rb

rbuser

Using 7.04 with Delphi 7.

What is the best way to go from a complicated word doc with lines and
boxes and text to making that an image or something similar in report
builder so I can print fields between the lines. My image turns out
large when I convert it to adobe and then to jpg. Any suggestions?

nicocizik

Hi Louis,

Unfortunately I do not believe there is a good way to convert from Word to
RB. You may try saving your Word document as a rtf file, then load it into
the TppRichText component on a report. Perhaps enhancing the rich text
component in RB with InfoPower or WPTools will allow all of your objects to
appear on the report.

InfoPower RichEdit Support
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InfoPower from Woll2Woll Software is a popular database add-on product for
Delphi. InfoPower's TwwRichEdit components support the Windows RichEdit2
format. This format allows the rich text data to contain embedded bitmaps
and OLE objects. For more information please see http:\\www.Woll2Woll.com.

ReportBuilder includes a component that enables the TppRichText and
TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the formatting capabilities
of InfoPower's TwwRichEdit when rendering RTF data. The ppWWRichEd.pas unit
located in the ..\RBuilder\InfoPower directory defines a TwwDBRichEdit
descendant and then registers the class with ReportBuilder. This enables the
TppRichText and TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the
formatting capabilities of TwwDBRichEidt when rendering data.


WPTools Support
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WPTools is a collection of components used to edit and print formatted text.
With its own RTF engine, WPTools offers numerous features not supported by
the standard Windows RichEd20.dll. This control lets you use tables,
paragraph frames, headers and footers etc. Using the optional ReportBuilder
support units for WPTools 2.x, you can print the enhanced WPTools features
(justified text, tables, graphics...) within your ReportBuilder reports. For
more information please see http:\\www.wptools.de.

TRichView
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TRichView is a suite of native Delphi components for displaying, editing,
and printing hypertext documents. Documents can contain tables, pictures,
and images. TRichView is available from www.trichview.com. There is a
wrapper for available for using TRichView inside ReportBuilder, see
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Downloads/CompanionRCL.html or
http://www.trichview.com/resources/

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nardmoseley

In addition to Nico's suggestion about RTF, you might also try exporting
from Word to HTML - I think TRichView can load html. (see TRichView below).