>Hi All,
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>Stream of consciousness issues.........
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>A rough part in this adventure to automatically convert VFP reports to Word documents has been shapes and bitmaps that cross bands. To call it a PITA would be an understatement.
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>Another has been the automatic offset of text in fields versus labels. In Fox, line 'em up visually and they print out in-line. I think the box border is added to the exact placement of the contents.
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>When sent to Word, the field contents are shifted one point to the left and upward. This has to be accounted for....
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>Labels, OTOH, seem to be placed with the invisible border exclusive to the placment, width, and height. This means that you have to expand the "box" a bit when placing labels or the last word or character may be cutoff.
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>Fields that can "stretch". I have not solved this issue yet. Suggestions welcome.
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>Private report dataenvironments. I have semi-resolved this issue. I have yet to address user code in report DE events, though.
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>3rd party utilities: Not supported at this time. Maybe I'll get some info from Markus on GenRepoX to get this thing to work with it......
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>Stay tuned........
John,
Really I don't know what are you talking about. Seems you have a new utility in files :)
I wanted to say for fields that can stretch "table" is what I use.
Cetin
