Printing Text wiht different size and font

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anuragjoshi

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Dear All,

I wanted to print some text using Progress (on HP Laser printer), and I want to format the text getting printed.
I want to change the font, font size, make them bold, wanted to print some barcode etc etc. Also, I wanted to draw some lines, boxes etc.

Need your help to check if this is possible? I do not want to use any thrid party tool (because of budget). Please help me to know if this is possible.

Thanks in Advance,

Best Regards

Anurag.
 
Everything is possible if you put enough effort into it, but, to be serious, the 4GL has no built-in functionality to handle such formatting the easy way. You can always send the control sequences of that specific printer to it or put them into the report file - but that is a technique which I last used in the middle of the '80s ( I think Fortran or something like this on host machines ) ...

If you're are running on Windows ( but you do not talk 'bout the Progress version you are using and the OS you're running on ) I would advice you to use a third party tool.

PDFinclude ( which I found on http://www.freeframework.org ) is just one of 'em, and I did use it on Linux/Unix in the past. But to be honest that is not particularly my best competence.


HTH, RealHeavyDude.
 
Thanks Sir !!!

I am using Linux and Progress 9.1E for my development (Char Version).
Hope this will help you to provide further information to me.

Best Regards,

Anurag.
 
In that case I would use an OS independent format like PDF to create the reports. Whether you pick PDFinclude or others is up to you.

Regards, RealHeavyDude.
 
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