WMF Use for Forms Emulation

rbuser

I'm wondering how best to handle a large number (30 pages) of WMF files
used to simulate a contract.

I'm assuming the following is the best way to handle it?

1) Create pages with page breaks to accommodate the number of pages in
the contract.

2) Populate each page with an image, with the picture property pointing
to the specific WMF page.

Lastly, if the contract document exists as a MS Word document are there
any alternatives? Can MS Word export to WMF's directly without scanning
the pages?

I can't get the RichText component, (even with the Woll2Woll extensions)
to properly and consistently format the text, (word wrapping, spacing
problems) when trying to use the contract text directly.

TIA,

John

nicocizik

Hi John,

1. Yes, or you could add these images to a in-memory dataset or list object
and traverse through them (using a JITPipeline) creating a group for each
record.


How are you setting the text? If you are simply assigning text to the
richtext component, no formatting will exist. Take a look at the
TppRichText topic in the RBuilder.hlp for more information on formatting
richtext.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico,

Thanks for the quick response!

I'll give both a try, and take a look at the help file on richtext.

John

rbuser

Nico,


Just an FYI.


I ended up "cheating", but this works very well.


I created a report that contained one image component with each scanned
page in cascading subreports, and positioned the fields on each page.

Not elegant, but thought someone else might need to put together a
multi-page report quickly, and could follow the same path.

John

nicocizik

Hi John,

Thanks for the tip.

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Regards,

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