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From: Mark <no_no@dontspam.net>
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Subject: Re: Prettty printed reports in MSWindows
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 11:06:05 -0500
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In my case option 3 will probably be the 'keeper'. HTML sounds 
interesting -- I'll have to see if I can get Iexplorer to print a 
document from the command line.

Thanks for the 'search and replace' comment, for some reason I hadn't 
considered it.

Mark


David Botton wrote:
> Here are three methods I commonly use (in this order):
> 
> 1. I output to HTML
> 2. I use a program like Crystal Reports. The ActiveX controls works with
> GWindows.
> 3. I create templates in WordPad (using %XXX% or the like for fields) and
> save to RTF. Then I do search and replace with Ada on the fields so to speak
> and send the results to WordPad for printing (you start the application with
> the -p option and the filename and it just prints out the temp file).
> 
> David Botton
> 
> 
> 
>>However, I am currently trying to figure out a good way to print some
>>formatted business reports.
> 
>