How do you produce your HTML/PDF documents

Jose Lerebours fpgroups at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 11:59:58 PDT 2020


Just wondering how often and how many of you push HTML/PDF documents out
of your filePro application.

Do you use filePro native syntax to produce HTML?  How complex are your
HTML documents?

For what I have noticed, PDFs are very much in the tank since filePro 
has provided
native drivers (or so it seems) to print PDF documents.  I wonder if the 
community
in general is OK with its limitations (please share what these are in 
your case, if you
wish) have driven you to utilizing other means to produce your PDF 
documents as well.

I once wrote a PHP script to parse filePro screen and produce the HTML 
form matching
the screen.  It took a couple of hours but I was trying to show a friend 
of mine how simple
it would be to replace his screen scraper and simply show exactly what 
he has, replicate
every screen and write the code to query through his filePro files.

We ended up developing the entire thing in SQL because of scaleability 
cost and a few other
reasons he came up with ... don't ask me, I was just writing the code.  ;-)

Regards,





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