Hi,

We have Baan IV C4 with Porting Set 6.1c.05.02 on a Unix machine.

On certain Baan reports like Sales Invoices, we want our Company Logo to appear on each page.
The company logo can be in a GIF/Bitmap File.

Is it possible in Baan Reportwriter itself ? Or the only option is to make use of external report writer like Crystal Reports ?

Thanks

You can do that in Baan by creating custom fonts.I have done a lot of work on this.

You can refer to this thread for the document on logo printing by clark( Very good one)

http://baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1194&highlight=logo+printing

If u have any problems I can help.

Thanks
Baanprog

I believe if you do a search of the tools forum for logo you will find several posts. Here is one (http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1194&highlight=Logo).

Good Luck!

Mark

Thanks Baanprog and Mark for your prompt response.

I had been through the links you specified and also, the global search on "font", "logo" across baanboard.

Most of the postings have a mention of creating and using a user-defined font, then registering that font on each of PC and then, making use of "bwprint" utility of Baan.

But at our end, we do not make use of bw environment; every login is ASCII (ba).

Is there any way by which Baan report can recognize the Image files in Unix environment ?

Sorry I missed this post. Yes there is a way to do this. What we do is put this in the report script for each report that gets a logo.


printer = tolower$(spool.device)
shell.command = "/usr/bin/lp -d" & strip$(printer) & " -s $BSE/lib/barcode/font/IMAGE.BIN"
shell(shell.command,1)


The report then has a field put on it with " " as the field and the font defined as user font 14. Then user font 14 has pfont14=\E&f0s6y2x1S in it.

I did not set this up so I am not sure what is in the IMAGE.BIN file. We also use nothing but HP printers.

Mark

Thanks very much Mark.

I hope, the solution should work.
We are also using HP Printers.

I believe, the IMAGE.BIN can be replaced by any GIF file.

Let me try it and I will post the findings.

Thanks again.

Baaniac,

It is not as simple as your assumption. Please look here for a solution. Be warned it is not for the faint of heart :)

http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7119