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12/11/1997 15:07:35
Edward Crawford
City Facilities Management
Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00058435
Message ID:
00059790
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36
>Thanks Ed,
>
>>
>>You can batch a job simply adding the document names to a table. Set up
>>timer to fire when you want the batch to run. Loop through the table and
>
>>fax each document. After you are through delete the document names from
>>the table.
>>-Ed
>How do you REPORT FORM into a table?

The actual form that you will fax does not go into the table, only the name and path of the form does. So you would have a method that would loop through the table, get the name of the form to fax, then fax it. It would then delete that entry and go on to the next one.

-Ed

>Here is the example, I want to send to each of my customer there Account
>statement, for every customer I will run a Report Form and I want the
>report to have the logo and the report design. How can you take the output
>of the report and put it in a table? I can do it with the ascii clause but
>I will loose graphics and good looks.

There is a couple of mays to do this:
1. You could build an ascii form. This, as you noted would be devoid of graphics.
2. Another way would be to make calls to Word, have your Logo and design as a template in Word, and just fill in the data that needs to populate the form. I have not worked wit Word in this fashion, but I know you can do it.
3. The last way that I know of is by using FaxPlus. They have a Printer driver that captures all output into a .bmp file. Their product then takes the .bmp image and converts it to their proprietary .fax format which they fax.

If you don't want to go the FaxPlus route, however and want to maintain your graphics, The OLE calls to Word is your best bet.

-Ed



>>If you don't want Word to start, you will have to use a third party
>control
>>such as FaxPlus. I have had dubious results with FaxPlus, however, in an
>
>>automated environment, and you should call the .DLL directly foir best
>>results. FaxPlus is written for VB, and I have had trouble just droping
>>the control on my form and using it.
>>-Ed
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