Using a card for printing reports
> If these are typical form elements, though - boxes, lines, and so on > - I'd suggest trying them as graphics instead. You can draw graphics > directly onto a card using the tools, and they will print at full > resolution. > -- > jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jaedworks.com It's too bad there is no way to convert a PDF or an EPS to whatever formats the native Bezier graphics are in RunRev. That would be the ideal solution for everyone as then RunRev would not need a fancy report generator as you could do your design in Adobe Freehand or similar. Also the prevalence of PDF's for other government forms (like those fun 1040's) would seem to be a motivator for creating a conversion engine (are there tons of British forms available as PDFs too?) The problem is that I have 20+ complex U.S. Customs forms and Caribbean island forms (St. Martin, Anegada, St. Kitts etc.) that are all available as PDFs but RunRev has no easy to use complex report designer nor any ability to import PDF's... So I am experimenting with having each report be a gif in the background on a card especially for that purpose and than writing code to put in the information from my vessel and crew and passenger databases onto the various places on the form (both sides sometimes and with odd number of lists). So far this is not working very well (small print not readable). All of this I accomplish now with several HyperCard stacks and the truly excellent features of Nine to Five Reports. Those features are adding another conversion problem as well because Nine To Five had an index and search feature that I used extensively throughout the old stacks that I now have to re-write too (but that is a unique problem that I can live with). The final goal is to use RunRev's internet access as U.S. Customs is changing everything to paperless and that was difficult to do in HyperCard. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Using a card for printing reports
At 5:11 PM -0400 4/15/2004, Bill wrote: I am now trying to figure out which format is the best for both print speed and quality. I am exporting the forms from acrobat in tiff, jpeg, gif, and then trying them in RunRev for print quality and speed of printing (postscript would sure be the way to go!). I don't think there'll be any difference in speed between the three - they're all bitmap formats, and I believe the printer driver does the same amount of work for any of them. (But if they're not photographic or continuous-color, I think GIF is your best bet for quality and small size.) If these are typical form elements, though - boxes, lines, and so on - I'd suggest trying them as graphics instead. You can draw graphics directly onto a card using the tools, and they will print at full resolution. -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Using a card for printing reports
The only problem I'm having now is my test stack that was converted from Hypercard keeps crashing RunRev. I think it is something to do with all the background flds that are now individual group fields as trying to change them to one group causes a crash almost every time. Hi Bill, Open your stack and, from the message box type "set the HCAddressing of this stack to false". (While you're at it, also type "set the dynamicPaths of this stack to false".) Then save your stack. When a HyperCard stack is converted to Run Rev, these properties are both true--which is exactly opposite of the default settings for Revolution stacks. If HCAddressing is true and I add a new field, "Delivery Date" to a card, 'put [whatever] into field "Delivery Date"' will fail with "No Such Object": Transcript expects 'put [whatever] into CARD field "Delivery Date"' when HCAddressing is on. This still leaves you with the background conversion issue; but at least you won't be wondering (as I have more than once) 'what do you mean "No Such Object"?; I can see it in the Application Browser"!', and hopefully you'll crash less often. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Using a card for printing reports
At 12:22 PM -0400 4/14/2004, Bill wrote: I am having no difficulty importing jpg or png for a card background but it says in the docs that you can use eps (encapsulated postscript) for an image background but when I import it it appears that maybe it was imported (it takes a few seconds and there a no dialogue that says it isn't working but there is also no indication that it did work. There's such a thing as an EPS object, but it's only available on Unix systems that have Display Postscript available. -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Using a card for printing reports
I am having no difficulty importing jpg or png for a card background but it says in the docs that you can use eps (encapsulated postscript) for an image background but when I import it it appears that maybe it was imported (it takes a few seconds and there a no dialogue that says it isn't working but there is also no indication that it did work. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
