Reports 3.0 Printouts (Text Mode)

1) We have been trying some printouts from the reports runtime by clicking on (Report Builder 3.0.4.6.3/Developer forms 5.0) the printer icon available on the menu bar and also specifying the appropriate print properties in the
print dialogue box and the print out is satisfactory (dot matrix printer
/generic text).Of late we have been trying to HIGHLIGHT some portion of the printed text in BOLD STYLE by using the printer code before/after property
of the respective text items but we have not been successful in getting the
desired output.Hence pl.clear us on the above aspects.Our requirement is
printed text should be in BOLD STYLE for selected fields in the generic text
printer.
2) Our second requirement is we want to try printing pre-Printed cheque leaves(continous stationery) from the reports runtime by clicking on (Report Builder 3.0.4.6.3/Developer forms 5.0) the printer icon available on the menu bar using (dot matrix printer/generic text).

hello,
1) NO ... delimited was not available in reports 3.x
2) good question. not really. the file is a text file and excel
is "too intelligent" to be mislead by only changing the
extension ;-) you might be able to code something in excel
itself.
regards,
the oracle reports team --pw

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