Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #12
Thanks for sticking with me through all this. Here's what I've come up with. Have I made the right choices?
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #10
I'm still confused about products. The manual says that wRTF2PDF includes textDynamic functionality, and can be used in client applications as well as asp…
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #9
@wpsupport: We're eliminating Delphi and converting the merge code to C#. Just to be clear, we have both windows apps and a website. Both use wptools for …
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #7
Now I'm confused about pdf products. We have some delphi windows apps that use wptools6 to merge and print letters. We'll convert Delphi to C#, and u…
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #4
I'm trying to figure out pricing. To do the merging, it looks like I want the premium package. In addition to that, we need to support printing of individ…
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #3
Looks good. Digging deeper, our OnMailMergeGetText uses RTTI to get values of published properties (and avoid having a giant case statement). I suspect the sam…
Application differences between WPTools6 and TextDynamic #1
I'm trying to understand the detailed coding differences we'll need to implement if we convert our apps from delphi to C# and use TextDynamic instead…
Printer top margin different if preview vs print #3
Thanks for your quick reply. TWPCustomRichText.Print is how we're printing the merged document directly. The same rich text object is assigned to the prev…
Printer top margin different if preview vs print #1
We've installed a new printer (Xerox) to replace an older Ricoh. Some of the things we print are on legal sized paper. When they're previewed and the…
Random failure to print a logo #3
Anything we can do about resources? Are you talking about RAM? It seems that the problem has happened on XP machines, and once on a Vista box.
Random failure to print a logo #1
Once in awhile we'll print a few hundred merged letters, and one of them will fail to print the logo (one logo is used per batch -- it is preloaded into a…
PreviewDlg - buttons show when mouse over, but no icons #3
Yee Haw!! I compare the D2011 dfm with the D7 one and found imagelist2 was missing in the former. copied it into the dfm (reckless of me, I know), recompiled, …
PreviewDlg - buttons show when mouse over, but no icons #2
I vaguely recall a problem like this from the past, but can't find anything that solves it Ok, January 2012 I asked the same question. Looks like an issue…
PreviewDlg - buttons show when mouse over, but no icons #1
In delphi XE, i'm previewing a merged document. on the top bar I see the listbox to choose display size - Page Height, etc. But the print dialog buttons a…
Question about FAQ on mailmerge of images #1
I'm trying to understand this FAQ and not getting very far. Pardon my ignorance. I have a jpg (a logo image) in a database that should print at the top of…
Wingding char prints to one printer, not to another #1
In my wptools 6 document, I have the following, which translates to a medium sized dot, centered vertically on the line. When we print this document to our pro…
PNG won't add to doc, but jpg and bmp will (delphi XE) #3
Julian, thanks, PNGIMG did the trick. Jeremy
indenting part of a merged field #1
In my mailMergeGetText method, I want to set the content.string for one replacement var to a small block of text containing 2 parts. The first part is easy -- …
PNG won't add to doc, but jpg and bmp will (delphi XE) #1
I have wpObj_Image in my uses clause, it has DEFINE PNGLIB defined. I can select png, bmp and jpg files. The latter 2 types will add to the document and displa…
making tables in wp6 use same space as in wp4 #4
Julian, I hate to be a pitbull about this, but I don't understand your comment. Can you explain what you mean by In second try You didn't add wpNoMin…
How to enable buttons on twpPreviewDlg #4
I emailed a very small sample project just now that shows the problem. Jeremy
How to enable buttons on twpPreviewDlg #3
Print and setup printer may usually be enabled, but they are not for me. I have a row of square buttons on the upper left that show outlines when I mouse over …
making tables in wp6 use same space as in wp4 #3
Isn't this right? Is there another option set? rtfMerged.FormatOptions := rtfMerged.FormatOptions + [wpUseAbsoluteFontHeight, wpNoMinimumCellPadding, wpfI…
making tables in wp6 use same space as in wp4 #1
we have a bunch of wp4 templates & are converting to wp6. The ones with tables have slightly larger line height when printed with wp6. I've tried all …
How to enable buttons on twpPreviewDlg #1
I asked this question about a month ago, but it must have been overlooked. I'm using a twpPreviewdlg, and want to allow the user to setup a printer and pr…
Add insertpoint in code -- how to show name? #3
ShowMergeFieldNames is exactly what I was looking for. Perfect. I like the way they display too, very nice. Jeremy
Add insertpoint in code -- how to show name? #1
I'm upgrading from wp4 to wp6, and am creating a merge field in code. The ReplacementVar is a string, and in ongettext, I provide a value. The problem is,…
Line height where line is empty, vs with one or more chars #1
As I continue to compare my app using wp4 vs wp6, I find another difference. One line of a merged doc sometimes is empty, and sometimes has some chars. If empt…
Extra CR at top of merges after the first [ignore prev] #4
Is it true that inputstring(#12) creates a blank line? This seems very odd, and I wonder why many other developers haven't reported issues with it.
Extra CR at top of merges after the first [ignore prev] #2
I think I have the answer. There is an enumerated type wpCreateNewPage, not documented, but used in an example on p40 of WPToolsManual.pdf. There is one post a…