Re: E-mailing a SQR report: Conversion requirements

["Peter R. Lewandowski" <peter.lewandowski@CSUN.EDU>]

Can you make the report into HTML and then have the browser
handle printing?  You need the graphic links though, this might not
be a perfect solution.

You can give them the SQR Windows Viewer and email the SPF
file use the -KEEP switch.  Test your report in the SPF viewer by
printing it off, sometimes you might get different results.  Also try
to stick with standard fonts, if you can't, make certain the recipient
has the ones you are using installed for the SPF viewer.

Another free solution is to try out GhostView this will create a PDF
file from postscript files.  The only problem is the lack of fonts.
This is free and gets you added bonus of format control.  It is
freeware and you may not find a complied version for your Unix
server but you can look around.  I know there is one for AIX, and
Linux out there but I don't know where.  The site for the source is
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostview/ghostview.html.

These are free solutions, if you are going to be doing this a lot then
,yes Adobe would be the way to go.  Another product to look at is
SwiftView at http://www.ndg.com/ this will allow the end user to
view HPGL in a browser and then print the file using what ever local
print driver they have.


Hope this helps,

> Planning to use sqr version 4.3.2, Oracle database, Unix environment. I
> know how to e-mail the report, the question is how to ensure that the
> recipients can print it when the e-mail delivers the lis file as an
> attachment. The users may have various types of printers. Special fonts
> get clobbered if you try to print from Windows.
>
> What version of SQR do you have, and what platform?  Commands
> are different sometimes.
>
> > Has anyone e-mailed a sqr report itself? The sqr produces a .lis (dot
> > LIS) file and we would like to convert it, probably using Acrobat, and
> > then e-mail it. What are the other ways to convert it. The recipient is
> > not a PeopleSoft user and does not have any sqr product on their site.

Pete Lewandowski
Analyst/Programmer
818-677-7539