XCMD's/XFCN's

[Dan Shafer]

9-5's stuff is definitely not compatible with RR.

Also, it's not really true that reporting is non-existent in RR. I'm 
just finishing my next eBook(let) on printing and I had to overcome 
that same belief in working on it. While it's true that making some 
sophisticated kinds of reports work in RR takes more work than it might 
have in Report DataPro (9-to-5's product), there doesn't appear to be 
much that you can't do with enough scripting. And a lot of reporting is 
much more straightforward than first seems to be the case.

One of our serious script-heads here (I'll let him identify himself if 
he chooses) told me yesterday that he has become very impressed with 
the printing capability in RR, including even print previews at 50% 
thumbnails that rival those of commercial apps.

So stay tuned. Or dive into what Rev *does* have in the way of 
reporting and figure it out yourself. It's not as hard as it seems.

(We'll be having at least one and probably two sessions on printing at 
the upcoming RevConWest in June in Monterey.)

Dan

P.S. In general, almost everything I used to use X-thingies for in HC 
are implementable or already available in Transcript without the mess 
of an external.


On Mar 9, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Mikey wrote:

> Has a compatibility matrix been established for old HC XCMD's and 
> XFCN's?
>
> Since reporting is non-existent in RR, I have an alternative, which is
> 9-5 Software's Reports externals, which we use extensively.
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