Odd behavior when exporting to TXT

Post Author: mattlscc
CA Forum: Exporting
http://pixelspotlight.com/problem.docIf you view the document I created above you will noticed that in the preview of my report everything looks as I want it to appear... but once I export the report to TXT format I lose some data and characters. On each line between transactions there is supposed to be a single "^" character, and it shows up in the preview correctly, but when I go to export this report I just get an empty line. The other problem is when I go to export this report, all but the last line of the first transaction are missing. Any ideas on how to fix these two problems? Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Post Author: norton
CA Forum: General
Hi PC1095,
Are you exporting from the Crystal Reports designer? If so, then you have posted to the wrong forum.
If you are having this issue from the crystalreports.com website, I don't believe we support version 8 reports, but let us know and we can try to look at it.
Steve

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1) When I tag the photos outside of iPhoto, the photos' geo information comes up correctly in Places, but when I try to export the photo (either drag to desktop or File > Export > File Export and set +Kind: Current+ ) I get the correct latitude but the longitude is on the other side of the world according to Preview. (My best guess, I'd say about 180° off.) If I export the same photo but set +Kind: JPEG+ the location info in Preview looks fine.
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I'm trying to geotag photos for a friend and then send the pics back to him, but I don't want to re-compress them. Has anyone else encountered this and come up with a workaround?
Thanks in advance,
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Paul Villasenor wrote:
I'm trying to geotag photos for a friend and then send the pics back to him, but I don't want to re-compress them. Has anyone else encountered this and come up with a workaround?
Seems like iPhoto may not be well suited for working on other people's photos since it requires an import/add followed by an export. iPhoto isn't really build for this sort of thing.
Instead you might try something like Graphic Converter. You can browse your folders (no importing necessary) and Geocode photos by using Google Earth to locate the positions. GC will then apply that current Earth location to any selected photos with a menu item. This writes the data directly to the photos so no need to export either and it doesn't effect the photos in any way by re-compressing or otherwise processing the photos themselves.
Best of luck,
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Hello all,
Running Lightroom 2.2 on Mac OS 10.4
I'm experiencing some very odd behavior from a few files (originally NEFs converted to DNG; all from the same shoot/card). I am able to render adjustments in the Develop module but then two very odd things happen.
First, when I zoom to 1:1 preview the rendered changes do not appear; the file reverts to it's original state.
Secondly, and most importantly, when I export the files as a jpeg (whether from the Library, Develop, or Print module) the rendered changes do not appear and the file reverts to its original state. Again, same issue if I try to print the file -- the adjustments don't come through.
To further the mystery, this is only happening to a few files and I am able to manipulate the others and export them just fine. FURTHERMORE, when I open the same files on another computer that's running LR 1.4, I am able to edit and render the files AND see the changes upon export.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance.
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