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Re: moving an Access database to pdf format

<reply cross posted: Acrobat, Framers, FrameUsers>

Patrick,

It depends upon what you are trying to accomplish in your PDF.  How
complicated is the formatting?  Also, fortunately, I have not had to
deal with Access, thus I don't know how difficult or not it is to
write reports.  

You do not indicate a) what platform you are on and b) whether this is
a one-time job or if it is repetitive.  

If the formatting is relatively simple and if it is a repetitive type
of job, I would write reports in Access that tag the text using
FrameMaker's MML (Marker Markup Language??) codes.  The MML manual is
in the on-line with the FrameMaker Help and is easily printed out.  

I have used this feature to handle data coming from a legacy Xenix
(remember that?) Informix database, transferring data over a serial
line to a real unix system, then using the MML files in Win95
Framemaker (553 back then).  It works GREAT as long as MML will do
what you want -- and it may or may not have the features that you
need.

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Patrick Gribben wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I want to move an Access database into pdf format but the current route I'm
> using is very painful
> Access>plain text>Frame>Save as pdf
> Is there an easier route?
> Patrick Gribben
> 
> Patrick.Gribben@arm.com
> 
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