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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:39:00 GMT
- Reply-To: Willy Waks <0005400191@MCIMAIL.COM>
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- From: Willy Waks <0005400191@MCIMAIL.COM>
- Subject: WordPerfect merge and SAS
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- Hi y'all !
- Any suggestion concerning the following document processing problem ?
- Platform: SAS 6.06 under OS/2.
- We are going to process data for an ongoing medical survey. Each time a
- set of questionaire comes in, a nice report has to be published for the
- population included on this set. There will be hundreds, may be
- thousands (?), of sets, that means as many reports. That also means:
- automatic document processing, except maybe document collating. The
- report should look like a nice booklet (about 20 pages), and contains a
- mix of text, graphics, and tables. The tables and graphics are generated
- by SAS programs, and can be sent either directly to a graphic device to
- be inserted in the document, or to GSF (Graphic Stream Files) to be
- picked by a desktop publishing/word processing program. The text part
- contains (many) elements calculated by the SAS programs, which we do not
- want to manually type-in. FSLETTER, while it allows mail merge, is too
- primitive as far as desktop publishing features: try to bold or
- italicize, subscript or superscript with it, and you'll se what I mean.
- WordPerfect seem to be an adequate tool for text (mail) merge, with the
- added conveninec of being able to enhance existing graphic images and
- tables.
- Questions:
- 1) has anynone any insight on creating a secondary WP file with SAS. I
- know that it can be a comma delimited file, but I don't know how to mark
- end of field and end of record, and if I need a special header.
- 2) SAS and WP accept all kinds of graphic formats (TIFF, PCX, HPGL
- etc..) I'm not an expert in the differences. Which one is recommended ?
- (PS: if it matters, we will be using a color graphic laser printer, I
- believe a QMS. But this is not definite yet).
- 3) After writing all this, I just read in the WP 5.1 documentation
- (1989) that "currently", WP will print color graphics images in black
- and white only. Does anyone know if this has changed ? I will also post
- the question on the WP forum on Compuserve and let the answer be known
- to the list if there is an interest.
- 4) Last, but not least, short of WP, can anyone suggest any other
- non-esoteric solution to this problem. Anyone knows anything about
- SAS/PUBLISH ?
- Thanks
- <<Errare humanum est... sed perseverare diabolicum !>>
- Willy Waks
- 2W Systems Co., Inc. 5430 Alpha Road Suite 200 Dallas TX 75240
- Tel: 214-6618619 Fax: 214-6610130
- Email: wwaks@mcimail.com 73437.344@Compuserve.com
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