I have come across several situations where a "graphic file" print driver would have been useful. By this I mean a print driver that saves the output to an image file (bmp, pcx, jpg, whatever). This was one of our situations: We have a bunch of WP documents that are forms. They are sent out to associates to be filled-out and returned. We were creating an instruction guide (a how-to fill the forms out). Pictures of the forms were needed for the examples. If the form documents could have been printed to a graphics file, that would have been great. That would also be nice in your situation.

Anyways, what we did was this: We printed the document to a fax program and in the fax program's viewer module we saved the image as a bitmap. Not the greatest solution, but better that anything else we thought of. The resolution is only 400X200 I think.

Joe

BTW, is you come across any graphics file type of print driver, please let me know!


>Does anybody out there know if there is any way of printing a FoxPro report to a graphics image file (pcx,gif,jpg,etc). Every time I get close to a solution, I hit a brick wall! I have found a way to print to a RTF file using FoxWord (third party app) but then I can't find any software to manage these files. I found that VFP can support RTF data in a general field, but, again, no way of printing a RTF file from VFP. I have found lots of fax software which can handle graphics files but no way of producing graphics files from FoxPro. Some of the report systems are written in 2.6 but I intend rewriting in VFP5 so if a solution can be found in VFP, I will be more than happy to bring the conversions forward. The reports systems are run on any number of PCs so licensing third party software could create a financial "brick wall".
>Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>Nigel.