[Uniface-L] Printing images and Page X of YYYY with Uniface

[robert wade]

Has anyone found a solution for combining print output of images (a company logo) and 'Page X of YYYY' with a Uniface report?
 
Thought perhaps we could write print output to a file and then replace the 'YYYY'' with the actual last page number before sending the data to a printer, but suspect this will only be possible if the output is written in Ascii format (thus losing any logo).
 
Perhaps it wouldn't be difficult for a .NET programmer to combine the text from a Uniface application with a Word template (via COM?) to produce good laser printer output, but don't have any experience of that or the difficulties that might ensue (e.g. Would it require a different template for each report, even if the template only contains 'standard' header details: i.e. including the logo and page numbers?).
 
The Uniface application is a system for sale, so I don't think we can oblige our customers to invest in a dedicated reporting tool.
 
Any advice appreciated!
 

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[Ulrich Merkel]

Hi Robert,

the "page of pages" is a very old question in the Uniface World.

The "best" way is
1: "print" it the first time to get the YYYY.
2: print it the next time in the final layout.

One option is to define 2 logical printers of the same kind:
one where you stopped the printout (so you do not waste paper)
and an identical one which prints the final stuff

Success, Uli

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[Iain Sharp]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:14:50 +0000, robert wade <wad...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

If you purchase Crystal Reports developer edition, you can then
release the runtime viewer to your customers for free and view/print
the reports.

This has several advantages over Uniface as a report processor.

1. MUCH more WYSIWYG.
2. Exports to Excel, Word, PDF and others.

I have recently posted our Crystal report view/print screen to TURF
(http://hosted.byjones.co.uk/turf/index.php).

Iain