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- From: ddutta@tiguex.cs.unm.edu (Debashis Dutta)
- Subject: First Time Informix User
- Message-ID: <C17LBH.88x@tiguex.cs.unm.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:52:31 GMT
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- Hello World :
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- I have just started using informix and still trying to get some ideas about
- how strong a DBMS package it is. I am having some problems in printing Ace
- reports......well all I want to do is to have various font size options builtwithin the report. That is to say, someone who wants Courier 10 cpi bold
- format to print out the header of the report, how will he do that or say I
- want to use the compressed printing mode of the hp laserjet III printer.....
- now I can change the font setting of the printer manually and then send the
- job for printing....but can I built this within the report itself.
-
- What I have tried so far is to write the report in a file, then pass the
- file thru a shell script that sends the <ESC> sequence to the printer to
- change the font size.....but I want everything built within the program
- so that a less knowledgeable user can just printit everytime without any
- problems.
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- I would really appreciate if some one can guide me to incorporate this within
- the program itself. My email is ddutta@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
-
- Dev Dutta
- University of New Mexico, CS Dept.
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