>>>>>My own report-writer, being based on classes, supports sub-classing. Also, you might conditionally print, based on a condition.
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>>>>>It currently supports only text-mode reports (which the user can preview in the favorite browser - bold and italic are supported in preview), and Excel automation. Download File#
9991.
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>>>>These reports need to be produced as PDF with all graphics included. Anyway, I'll take a look, thanks.
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>>>And how do you go about to print them? Print to PDF printer driver?
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>>>You could do that with a slight adaptation to my class, too - with Excel automation.
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>>>However, Excel automation - or automation in general - is slower than VFP reports - don't consider it for hundreds of pages.
>>>
>>>Hilmar.
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>>I think, in my case it's simpler to have three copies of the report. I can have a function, which can clone the master copy of it to two other versions...
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>If you want to go this way than you should clone report at runtime not in desing. Otherwise somebode could deside to modify your cloned copies and those modification cold be lost when you run your clonning program.
Right, this was my idea. However, I'll postpone the implementation for now...
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