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Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL?

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"Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> wrote in message 
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>
> I don't know if you have to worry about wrapping onto multiple pages or
> anything, which complicates things a little extra, but it should be
> fairly easy to write a program that reads your CSV and writes out
> PostScript that renders what you want, then there are opensource tools
> that can convert PostScript to PCL. Let us know a bit about what extra
> complications might exist, like multiple pages or multi-cell-spanning
> special cells, if you want to do something like this and would like
> further help. For instance, you mention numerical data: does it need
> some special justification, like right- or by-decimal-point or anything?
> And, there isn't any special character or font stuff to worry about,
> like text in Hebrew? Is the simplest one-page center-all-data or
> whatever good enough?
>
> Mark

Hi Mark,

It would be three pages long so I would like to page break and there are all 
column headers.  But otherwise, it's just straight numbers.  It's a daily 
report and the days of the month are the first column.

1 - 31 or however many days in the month.  Then data in rows for each day of 
the month.  It runs every day populating each day as it goes along.

I've written stuff in PCL before.  We use it quite a bit but not the 
"graphics" so much with grids or lines.  Finding info on that is hard and I 
do have PCL manuals.

I have no experience with post script and adding another conversion is not 
ideal.  So, I'd rather try to write something directly in PCL and just run 
one conversion we have to PDF.

Thanks for the info!  JJ 

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Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-03 08:45 -0400
  Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2012-04-03 18:36 -0400
    Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 07:13 -0400
      Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 01:07 -0700
        Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-05 06:53 -0400
          Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2012-04-05 07:20 -0400
            Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-05 14:14 -0400
  Re: Simulating a spreadsheet in PCL? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-05 11:11 -0700

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