Microsoft Snapshot viewer

[Rick Brown]

I'm trying to find a way to output a Access97 report to a file without
losing any of the formatting. The Microsoft Snapshot Viewer does this
perfectly but the person opening the file needs the viewer loaded on their
PC.
What follows are the ramblings of a network novice.
Currently my company has two types of PC's in the shop. The PCs at each
machining center run on a NT server (I: drive) and the office machines run
on a shared Novell server (S: drive)

The shop PC's are locked down to prevent changes to the Image. I've had my
office PC mapped to both drives so I can transfer the .snp file to I: drive
but I'm told the shop PCs cannot have the Microsoft Snapshot viewer loaded
on them.

The question I have is: Can the viewer be loaded onto the NT server only and
a shortcut placed on each of the shop PCs that would look something like
this?

"I:\snapshot.exe I:\MyFolder\MyFile.snp"

If this is the wrong forum for a question like this please point me in the
right direction.

TIA, Rick

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

The viewer must be installed on each machine that wants to use it. There are
very few 32 bit programs that don't require some form of installation before
they'll run.

 

[Stephen Lebans]

I would suggest that you convert the Reports to Adobe PDF format.

Alternatively, the ReportUtilites on my site allow you to export an
image of the Snapshot to an RTF file that can be viewed in Wordpad, MS
Word etc.
http://www.lebans.com/ReportUtilities.htm
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Stephen Lebans
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[Rick Brown]

Your ReportUtilites does the job and gives me the results I'm looking for,
BUT, I'm stumped as to where i need to make the changes you mention so the
dialog box doesn't pop up.

Your remarks I'm having trouble with:
' The Default is to display the File Dialog window.
' To Turn this Off and use a system generated Temp file name do:
'pf.ShowFileDialog = True
' To set a specific file name of your choosing do:
'pf.SaveFileName = "C:\mFileName.rtf"
From Your SUB: Private Sub CmdSaveRTF_Click()

I want to click on a command button and have C:\MyFile.rtf created with no
other intervention.

Thanks for this and all your help in the past,
RICK

 

[Stephen Lebans]

Have you tried:

pf.ShowFileDialog = False
' To set a specific file name of your choosing do:
pf.SaveFileName = "C:\mFileName.rtf"

Let me know if you are still having trouble.
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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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