Hmmm... we use XFRX in our VFP stand alone product, but this is being used to output to West Wind (WebConnect) and then to a PDF... so I suppose it might be possible. Haven't played with the new version yet.
Thanks foer the reply and sorry about the three attempts to show my example...
-- John
>Hi John,
>
>Since u hv to mimic preprinted form then frx/html might not be the
>best choice for this kind of task.
>I wld rather consider doing it via PDF, where u can achieve 100% positioning accuracy. You should look into wrapping some of PDF libraries available and then do it in code. Try xfrx/pdfl library for starters.
>If you are by any chance xfrx user then take look at newly introduced XFF scripting.
>There are other tools as well that let you do reports programmatically
>(mindseye re) so pick one and then go4it :)
>
>
>>Dear Report gurus -
>> Still trying to figure out a way around my problem, wherein I need to mimic a State of Maryland form that is too big to work 'as is' in the Report Form designer (there's another thread on this).
>>
>> I have a new idea...
>>
>> Since the final part of the form consists of questions and then answers, I'm thinking of building all of it into one big memo field. However, since I have to mimic the form, I need to bold the questions (and perhaps do other text formatting things within the memo field).
>>
>> Is there a way to insert a
command in VFP (to use an HTML type example)?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>-- John
-- John Kiernan
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