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Creating 1 report from multiple reports
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18/12/2002 18:25:00
Gavin Reid
L & M Marketing Pty Ltd
Frenchs Forest, Australia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00734305
Message ID:
00734326
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Hi Rich,

Thanks. I'll have a look at your report engine.

Regards,
Gavin...

>Gavin,
>
>You need to take a look at my Report Engine Control:
>http://www.mindseyeinc.com/ReportEngine
>
>I can do exactly what you want to do even in the Preview. Plus the PRO Edition includes PDF Export and it's about 5 to 10 times faster than Adobe's PDF Writer. You don't need any other PDF Print Engine since the code is built right into my control. Most of the code is in my ActiveX control. But I wrote a VCX to actually process and run VFP FRX Reports and load them into my control. The control is also usable in VB, Delphi and C++ as well. But the VFP Reports are only runnable under VFP. You can also extend the VFP VCX to do more things as well. There are several methods that allow you to add pages on the fly and more text and shapes even after your VFP Report has been rendered. Plus the you can ZOOM the REPORT PREVIEW to 100,000% if you want. Last week I also added support to print more than 1 Report Page per Sheet of Paper and even save to PDF the same way as well.
>
>So I think I have the perfect solution for your problem. That is why I wrote it. Plus I'm in the middle of adding support for Charts/Graphs into the control as well this week.
>
>
>> I'd like to be able to print 5 reports and make it appear as though the 5 are the 1 report.
>> I have 4 pages that print before the main report. The 1st, 3rd & 4th pages are portrait and the
>> 2nd page is landscape. The first 4 pages don't contain any database fields, they're just labels and
>> I create a 1 record dummy cursor to drive these 4 reports. The main report can be portrait or
>> landscape depending on a selected criteria. This is simple enough to accomplish when sending the
>> output to a printer, but I'd also like the reports to appear as 1 in Preview and when outputting to PDF.
>> I'd thought of using word automation to create 1 Word document, but I can't be sure that
>> everyone running the report will have Word. I'd really like to keep the reports in VFP6.0,
>> but I'm open to suggestions.
>
>> Anyone have any idea(s) on how to accomplish this?
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