RTFtext, printing and tabStops

[Shari]

Jan,

That makes more sense.  I've already made several of the RTF files 
with replacement variables embedded.  Rev gets the template, plugs in 
its own variables, sets the RTFtext (and special tabstops and print 
size) of a fld to it (in a stack specially made just for printing), 
prints, and moves on to the next one.

If they are saved as RTFtxt files and there are several in a batch, 
can they all be launched at once so the user has them all open and 
ready to print?

Shari


>Hi SHari,
>
>What I meant was not using the 'Mail Merge' function
>that ships with Word, but to effectively :
>- make an RTF document with [[expression]] tags as
>placeholders for the actual data
>- read that file into a Rev variable
>- use the Rev 'merge' function on that variable to
>replace the [[expression]] tags with the data
>- write the resulting content to a file on disk
>- open that file in Word using the 'launch' command.
>
>Whether or not you supply the RTF template or let your
>users roll their own templates, is up to you.
>
>If all your customers have Word installed (and most
>users do have it in one way or another) then you might
>as well re-use that as templating and printing engine.
>
>Just my two cents,
>
>Jan Schenkel.


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