RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Re: WYSIWYG

[Frazier, J. J. <Joe...@Pe...>]

If you are asking for what I think, you are out of luck.  Text is just =
what it says: Plain Text!  If you want files which have some kind of =
formatting (font size, font style, font color, bold, etc) the files must =
be generated in a application which supports those things and saved as =
some type of binary or marked up file (.rtf comes to mind) and then must =
be opened by an application which supports the file type.  Notepad =
allows users to change the font size/style for "viewing" and each =
machine may have different font sizes/styles when opening the exact same =
document. =20

If I am not mistaken, printing from Notepad will print exactly like the =
current view style (I dont have time to test).  If you control the =
printing of the files to disk in the first place, you could write them =
as an excel file using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel(?) module and have =
the users open the file in Excel and print from there.   This would =
allow some fairly powerfull formatting options.  If you dont write the =
files to disk, then you can even read them in via script/exe you build =
and convert them to Excel and then open the document in Excel.

Note: Any where Excel is mentioned, you could probably substitute Star =
Office's Spreadsheet program, although I have not tested it.

If this is on Windows and you/they have Excel installed, I would highly =
suggest using the Win32::OLE module so you can set columns to the widths =
you need and such.  If you have never played with Win32::OLE to work =
with Office applications, I believe this will greatly increase your =
knowledge of both Perl/OO-ish programming/VB.  Using this to modify =
Excel Documents via Perl is how I learned alot about Perl.

Joe Frazier, Jr.
Technical Support Engineer
Peopleclick Service Support

Tel:  +1-800-841-2365
E-Mail: mailto:su...@pe...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jos...@DM... [mailto:Jos...@DM...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:37 PM
> To: Borus Gabor
> Cc: Perl List
> Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Re: WYSIWYG
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> to have whatever text comes up on the richtext field look=20
> exactly like what
> will be printed out.  Spacing, size, indents, etc....
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