Re: HELP! - Running reports to a file

may be this will help.
On our system we had problem with printing text fileswith more than 80 charactersline width thru the wordpad (it wraped the lines). we have created a report with only one flexable field font size 8. The report get file name as parameter and load the field from the givven file using TEXT_IO. For us it solve all problems with formatting and printing texts.
If you think it will help you I can send you that report. Good luck. Dudy

catcher25_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <83m127$cpo$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> howardparks_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > In article <83dp04$uu7$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> > catcher25_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > > We are trying to run a report to a file and print it out in wordpad.
> > > When we do this it is not keeping our format and is not even
> > > recognizing our page breaks. The report is in character mode and I
> am
> > > using the default printer file. Has anyone had any success in doing
> > > this? PLEASE HELP! Thank you in advance.
> > >
> >
> > What exactly is the problem? If there are extra carriage returns
> > causing the wrapping, then your form is not wide enough. I found that
> I
> > needed to use the PAGESIZE parameter on my last character cell report,
> > to get it to format properly. If the lines are just getting wrapped,
> > then WordPad is the culprit. I would suggest looking at your file in
> > each stage of this process to determine where the format is getting
> > wrecked. Are the pagebreak characters being lost at some point?
> >
> > How exactly are you printing from WordPad ... manually or using some
> > kind of script?
> >
> > Howard Parks
> > 1 Peter 4:10
> >
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>
> Thanks Howard. I pretty much gave up on that after speaking with
> Oracle, telling me that things are application specific. Now I'm
> trying to run my report as a bitmap report as an rtf. fun fun. Not
> having much luck there either. Thanks again.
> >
>
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Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 10:06:07 CET