Re: HTML and XML

It was recently announced by Microsoft that the next version of Office, now
called Office 12, including Microsoft Access, would have native ability to
write PDF. That will be some time, of course, since it is not yet in Beta.

No problem for me, as my very old version of Adobe Acrobat has all the
features I have needed. I've migrated it from machine to new machine over
the years. Haven't loaded it on this machine yet, but I would imagine it
would work OK with Windows XP.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP


"Alan Searle" <aj_searle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> I currently use the MS-Access automatic report converter to throw some of
> my reports out as HTML. That works OK but often the report's layout is
> distorted and I would like to improve this.
>
> Ideally, I would like to output the reports as PDF, but my client has
> locked up the registry for users so I cannot do that (at least not with
> Adobe).
>
> Alternatively I could certainly program VBA to output formatted HTML
> reports where the content is not distorted. This would work OK but
> entails quite a lot of programming effort and I am sure that there must be
> an easier method.
>
> I was wondering whether I could build a 'report template' (in HTML) and
> then output different data content in XML. Is this possible? And does
> anyone know of a good Howto or tutorial that would explain the techniques.
>
> However, I understand that there are some XML techniques which are
> specific to Microsoft (e.g. 'data islands' which only work with IE and not
> with Netscape or Mozilla). Is this true and, if so, I would like to avoid
> these techniques.
>
> Thanks for any help that you can give me.
>
> Regards,
> Alan Searle


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