Best way to output form information

11 Mar 2006 3:35 PM

mr_doles

I have a form that collects buyer information from emails and displays
them in textboxes on the form. I am trying to output this information
to a file to use for a packing slip. I want the file to have a logo
(bmp picture) and the info from the form. I want to do this the
easiest way possible.

Using txt is out since I can't put a picture on it. Automating Word
seems like a lot more work then needed and with new versions of Office
looming on the horizon I would hate to have to rewrite in the future.
I thought an rtf fie would be easy but I am having trouble with it.
Using a stringbuilder and creating html would work. What about XML?
How about another format that I am not thinking of?

Any thoughts or suggestions.

11 Mar 2006 4:37 PM

Chris

mr_doles wrote:
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> I have a form that collects buyer information from emails and displays
> them in textboxes on the form. I am trying to output this information
> to a file to use for a packing slip. I want the file to have a logo
> (bmp picture) and the info from the form. I want to do this the
> easiest way possible.
>
> Using txt is out since I can't put a picture on it. Automating Word
> seems like a lot more work then needed and with new versions of Office
> looming on the horizon I would hate to have to rewrite in the future.
> I thought an rtf fie would be easy but I am having trouble with it.
> Using a stringbuilder and creating html would work. What about XML?
> How about another format that I am not thinking of?
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions.
>

What are you planning on doing with this file? What program has to be
able to read it. This maes a difference on what you can do.

chris

11 Mar 2006 4:57 PM

mr_doles

>What are you planning on doing with this file?

I want to be able to save it for future reference and print it out to
mail with.

>What program has to be able to read it.

Any standard progam like Word, I.E., wordpad, notepad, whatever.

Right now I have a hidden rtf box on the form and I load in an rtf
template from a file. I append text to the rtf box and then save it
out to an rtf file. I finally figured out how to get it working
correctly (when I wrote the first message I was getting errors writing
the file). I was just wondering if this is the cleanest/easiest/best
way to do it or should I look at other formats, like XML or HTML.