Re: Viewing Report files containing printer codes.

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Dean,

There are other ways to view reports which are more than text-only:

1) Use -keep to preserve the .SPF file which can then be viewed
using the SPF viewer SQRWV.  This requires that the SQR viewer
be installed on all machines that might be used to view the
reports.

2) Use -printer:ps to generate a PostScript file which is then
run through Adobe Acrobat Distiller.  This produces a .PDF file,
which can then be viewed with the Acrobat Reader.  This requires
that you purchase a license for Acrobat (less than $295) and
that you install the Acrobat reader on all machines that might
be used to view the reports, but this is not as bad as it
sounds.  Adobe has been distributing its reader free of charge
for many years, and web users in your organization have likely
downloaded it and are familiar with it.

Hope this helps.

Ray

> Dear All,
>
> I'm currently having a problem viewing some reports.  These reports
> contain printer control characters.  Obviously, when they are viewed
> from a text editor, they appear as a meaningless stream of escaped
> characters.
>
> What I'm after is a filter of some kind to convert these printer codes
> into plan ASCII viewable text.  Ideally, I'd like a filter to install
> into Microsoft Word.  Such a filter would also allow you to view the
> report, along with the formatting.  Does anyone know if such a filter
> exists?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean.
>
> PS: Thank you to everyone who supplied some help on my Julian date
> problem.
>
> Dean Morris
> Price Waterhouse Urwick
> Suncorp~Metway Financial Integration Project (Project SAMBUCA)
> Phone (07) 3362 2413    0417 742 335
>

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