Printing to a stream

rbuser

Version 9.x added printing to a stream. The demo examples show how to
print a PDF to a stream. However, there dont seem to be any examples
of printing a regular (if there is such a thing) report to a stream.
Are there any examples of how I could print a report to a stream vs a
printer?

Thanks

Craig

nicocizik

Hi Craig,

What information would you like stored in the stream? If you would like to
save the report template (i.e. the report definiton) to stream, you can use
the Report.Template.SaveToStream routine.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

I'd like to print the report content to the stream.

In one of my apps I need to keep a copy of what was printed in a db.
Currently when the user prints the report I also 'print' the report
to a TIF file (using extradevices) and then read the file back in,
compressing it etc and finally put it out onto the db.

It occurred to me that if I could print the report to a stream I could
skip the file portion.

Is this doable?

Craig

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:03:20 -0700, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"

nicocizik

Hi Craig,

Sorry, my real question was what file format would you like to print to
stream? Natively ReportBuilder can print to PDF, Text, and Archive files.
All of these formats have the ability to be sent to a file or a stream. If
you would like your stream to hold the exported TIFF image generated by
TExtraDevices, you will need to get in contact with Waler support
(support@waler.com) and find out how this is done. I believe this is an
option in TExtraDevices.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Needs to be TIF -- I'll contact Waler.

Thanks Craig

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:39:21 -0700, "Nico Cizik \(Digital Metaphors\)"