Is there an "MS-Word Printer"?

[Charles Freeman]

I am a programmer who write applications in Xbase++, a database language
kind of like FoxPro.

I have a client who needs to be able to import reports from our application
into a hospital document inaging system. Strangely enough I'm led to
understand that the only electronic format this system can import is an
MS-Word (*.doc) format.

I *could* rewrite my reports to use Word as a COM server, but it would be a
heck of a lot of work.

There are a lot of PDF printers. I use this technique now to create PDF's
from my application. This would be an ideal technique to use for the DOC
file creation as well.

What I really need is a "DOC" printer along the lines of the "PDF" printer.
I thought about using the Microsoft Document Imaging printer, but that
seems to be an orphan - Word can't read .MDI files any better than it can
read .PDF files.

Suggestions?

Charlie

 

[Dan Freeman]

You might take a look at FRX2ANY http://www.frx2any.com/ -- it's a VFP addon
that creates Word docs (among other formats) from VFP reports. The developer
edition comes with source you may be able to adapt it to Xbase++.

Dan