Sunday, October 6, 2002

 From The Edge: Printing Reports in R:BASE 7.0 for Windows (Part 2)
Section: Report Designer and Report Runtime
Chapter: Running R:BASE Your Way!
Platform: R:BASE 7.0 for Windows
Build: 1.859xRT04 (update 21and Higher)

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) option has been added to the existing
list of output report formats in R:BASE 7.0 for Windows Report Designer
and Report Runtime.

Report Output Options are:

. Default Printer
. Text File (.TXT)
. Report Emulation Text File (.TXT)
. Portable Document Format (PDF)
. HTML Document (HTML)
. Rich Text Format Document (.RTF)
. MS Excel Document (XLS)
. GIF Image File (.GIF)
. JPEG Image File (.JPG)
. Bitmap File (.BMP)
. Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
. Windows Metafile (WMF)
. Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Example of Printing Reports as Tagged Image File Format (TIFF):

Syntax:

PRINT ReportName WHERE � ORDER BY ... OPTION TIFF +
|FILENAME <value> |PIXELFORMAT <value>|BACKGROUND_COLOR <value> +
|BACKGROUND_FILE <value>|BACKGROUND_TYPE <value> +
|MONOCHROME <value>|COMPRESSION <value> |MULTIPAGE <value> +
|SCALEX <value>|SCALEY <value>|OPEN <value>

FILENAME: filename of TIFF-file

PIXELFORMAT: Specifies the pixel format of the TIFF-file (bits/pixel).

1  :  1bit
4  :  4bit
8  :  8bit
15 : 15bit
16 : 16bit
24 : 24bit
32 : 32bit

BACKGROUND_COLOR: Indicates the color to be used as background color
of all pages of report. Default: WHITE

AQUA
BLACK
BLUE
CREAM
DARK GRAY
FUCHSIA
GRAY
GREEN
LIME
LIGHT GRAY
MAROON
MEDIUM GRAY
MINT GREEN
NAVY
OLIVE
PURPLE
RED
SILVER
SKY BLUE
TEAL
WHITE
YELLOW

BACKGROUND_FILE: Stores the image file name that is to be used as
background image of all pages of report.

BACKGROUND_TYPE: Specifies the way background image has to be
displayed in the TIFF-file.

TILE
TOPLEFT
TOPCENTER
TOPRIGHT
CENTERLEFT
CENTER
CENTERRIGHT
BOTTOMLEFT
BOTTOMCENTER
BOTTOMRIGHT

MONOCHROME: Specifies whether TIFF-file produced are color or
monochrome images.

ON
OFF

COMPRESSION: When an image is loaded, this parameter indicates
the compression used by the image. When saving in image, the
parameter may be set to specify which compression method to use.

NONE            - None
PACKBITS        - Packbits
GROUP3_1D       - CCITT Group 3, 1D
GROUP3_2D       - CCITT Group 3, 2D
GROUP4  - CCITT Group 4
ZLIB            - Zlib(Default)
JPEG            - JPEG

MULTIPAGE: Output report to one multipage file or one file per page.

ON
OFF

SCALEX: double; Scaling factor for the width of the exported page.

SCALEY: double; Scaling factor for the height of the exported page.

OPEN: Specifies whether the report should be opened after it is
generated.

ON
OFF

PDF version of this technical document (6 pages) is also available at:

 From The Edge: http://www.razzak.com/fte (Reports and Labels)
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Very Best Regards,

Razzak.

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