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Outputting report in .PDF with Acrobat 4
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18/06/1999 15:07:54
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00228100
Message ID:
00231722
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18
>REPORT FORM (tcLayoutName) NOCONSOLE TO "&lcOutputFile."
>
>When I learned about macro substitution still working within quotes, I was almost angry - I was taught in other languages that no compiler will ever dare question what you say between quotes. Actually, the feature is sometimes cool, though it can usually be circumvented by using simple concatenation:
>
>lcName="world"
>? "Hello &lcName, how are you"
>? "Hello "+lcname+", how are you"
>
>The two solutions are equivalent and the other is actually cheaper - but in moments like this, the macro is handy. Who'd ever think there may be a situation where a name expression wouldn't work? Well, there was a hint - this is not a regular file name, and/or not a regular printer, this is printer redirection via custom driver... I'd better remember this one, might be useful.

Hi Dragan,

Thanks for an excellent tip. The king of thing you should send to FPA...

José
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