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- From: aa@rexago8.uucp (Adam Andrews)
- Subject: Re: First Time Informix User
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152124.27406@rexago8.uucp>
- Organization: Summit Information Systems
- References: <1jnghpINNd6v@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:21:24 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- alan@effluvia.den.mmc.com (Alan Popiel) writes:
- >Debashis Dutta (ddutta@tiguex.cs.unm.edu) writes:
- >->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
- >->built within 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.
- >
- >I don't use Ace, so I don't know how to do what you ask in Ace. HOWEVER,
- >it is really pretty easy to do what you ask in the 4GL report writer, which
- >is similar to, but more powerful than, the stand-alone ACE report writer.
- >Maybe you can do the same thing in Ace.
-
- >When using the 4GL report writer, you can output your control codes by using
- >a PRINT statement. However, the 4GL compiler will not let you print certain
- >control codes as constants, since it recognizes that they are special, and it
- >calls them "unprintable" or "non-printing" characters (I forget the exact
- >wording of the error message).
-
- >DEFINE code_on CHAR(3),
- > code_off CHAR(3)
-
- >LET code_on = ASCII 27, "W", ASCII 1 { example Epson print codes }
- >LET code_off = ASCII 27, "W", ASCII 0
- >PRINT code_on, rest_of_data, code_off
-
- I have used Ace, and the exact same syntax above should work in an ace report.
-
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