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   Jon J to Rodney Wise   
   Re: publish to rtf (paradox9)   
   16 Oct 06 18:12:09   
   
   From: n_o@mail.dk   
      
   Thanks for you replies Rodney, comments below...   
      
   "Rodney Wise"  wrote in message   
   news:4533a602$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...   
   > Also... what a lot of people have done is this... they print the Report to   
   > a PDF creator (printer).  This way, Images, Lines, etc... that you have   
   > designed into your Paradox Report will be shown in the final PDF document.   
      
      
   Tested this and as you say it works great. Unfortunatly I can't be sure that   
   all users will have access to Acrobat :(   
      
   > Paradox RTF file format is limited and does not include Images, lines,   
   > boxes, etc.   
      
   Was not aware of this but that explains all my troubles hehe.   
      
   > The limitations of the Paradox RTF file format does not allow Images,   
   > lines, etc... for the finished HTML page..  So I wrote the RTF To HTML   
   > Library code to be able to produce HTML code containing only a "Table"   
   > containing the Report (as an option).... This allows one to write code   
   > which would Wrap around the Table Code... This means that the final HTML   
   > output could include Images, Lines etc... just like you would have for any   
   > other HTML document.   
      
   After removing all the line stuff etc there's still have a few problems with   
   text running wild so I   
   decided to go ahead and create a proc which feeds a simple report my own   
   formated strings which can then be published. Only downside to this is I   
   have to use a font where all letters have same width on screen like courier   
   to keep the "accounting" right (dunno what this is called).   
      
   Again thanks for your pointers, I'm sure I'll get to use your rtf->html   
   library in the future. It really is a bit of a strange world getting into   
   opal (2 weeks in) when you're used to C#.   
      
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