Printing a Report question

rbuser

I am using 11.01, and the TextPipeline component. The preview form is
loaded from a temporary file that is located in the windows temporary
directory. When the report is printed, is the temporary file used again
to print, or is the data in the preview form used instead?

My first guess was the temporary file is used, but I was not sure.

Thanks

nicocizik

Hi Jeff,

Yes, your first guess is correct. When printing a report to the printer,
the report is completely re-generated and all data is accessed again. If
you would like to create and print a snapshot of the data displayed in the
preview, you can export the report to an archive or PDF file then print.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

I assume that if its a tab delimited file that is written to the hard
drive, it has to pre-process the data again somehow. In other words,
the non-formatted text file does not go directly to the printer.

nicocizik

Hi Jeff,

I'm unclear about what your question is.

If you are using a text pipeline, the data is always retrieved first from
the file, processed, then outputed to the report. This is the fundamental
process a Datapipeline follows by design. See the ppTxPipe.pas file for how
the Text Pipeline works.

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Regards,

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