Printing to a file

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Fry [mailto:jimfry at cnx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 1:30 AM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: Re: Printing to a file
>
>
> John:
>
> ...1st of all... thank you for resonding to my question... I have not used
> this 'list' before... I've heard from a few Filepro'ers... thank you.
>
> I think what was suggested I do was to use the Courier Font inside my word
> program because of something referred to as monospace.... I did that & all
> the lines of my columns lined up nicely...
>
> The only problem is that I want to use a font different than
> Courier.... is
> that possible?
>
> Initially, I thought I was going to have to somehow copy & paste my file
> into Excel so I could maintain the columns...is that somehow possible?
>
> - Jim

Jim,

Well, it currently isn't possible with the rtf printcode table. It likes
courrier and a couple others (perhaps). I guess it would use and respect the
Letter Gothic font... but that is also mono-spaced.

If the end result is to get this output into Excel, could you just export
the data from filePro directly into an Excel table... and let Excel handle
the different font style you want?  Rick, my colleague here, uses SYLK files
to get stuff nicely into Excel.  I used to use these export files all the
time in Multiplan years ago... my bet is JPR still does this. :-)  In any
case, the syntax is:

then: export MULTI myexcelfilename=c:\wherever-you-want-the-file
then: myexcelfilename(1)=13;  myexcelfilename(2)=31; myexcelfilename(3)=14
...
then: end

On your first record, these fields would go into the Excel columns of row
one.

On your second record the same fields would go into row 2... and so forth.

The command to run this would be:

   dreport filename -fp outputname -s selset ...

where the outputname is a processing only table that has the lines above on
it.

Glad I asked Rick about this first... good luck.

John

P.S. The syntax to start at a paricular row or column is:

   export name=path r=n

and/or

   export name=path c=n