Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News)
Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
Thu Sep 23 09:01:11 CDT 2004
A follow-up to this came Monday when I put forth a few of these suggestions. Much to my surprise and chagrin, another representative stated that he indeed HAD researched most of these automated options, but determined that the manual way wasn't really eating up all that much time. He finished his explanation with the comment that he was awaiting approval to commission a custom printer driver written specifically for us. This stance really bothered me. He is acknowledging a need for an automated solution, and is willing to spend top dollar just to address a situation that deep down he believes (in his department at least) is inconsequential. How warped is that? Mark -----Original Message----- From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:36 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] .TIFF Image of Report Pages Mark, I've seen situations where things were being done in a rather labor intensive, inefficient manner just as you describe. I've proposed better solutions and people have initially gotten a bit excited about the idea but in the end they kept doing it the same way. Sooo. I'd say you're going to get to labeled as: 1. a genius :-) 2. a lazy tehcno-geek who thinks the computers can do everything but doesn't realize that not everybody can run the computers as well as you (i.e. the scanner staff would have to be trained to run the software to do this-it would be too efficient to just have the engineers do it.) ;-) 3. a trouble maker who is trying to put all those people with jobs in the scanning section out of work! :-( John -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:50 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] .TIFF Image of Report Pages Many thanks to you all. After a little research into how other divisions have handled this creation of .tiff files from AutoCAD .dwg files, I'm a little disappointed. I mean that, just on the hint that we might have to take over this responsibility, it has only taken 12 hours for you kind folks to provide a multitude of viable options. What scares me is that some divisions are actually doing this manually by scanning a hard copy. So, in comparison, would I be considered lazy or efficient for wanting a better way? ;) Mark -----Original Message----- From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:36 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] .TIFF Image of Report Pages Hi Mark The "Print To Picture" printer driver: http://progrex.narod.ru/ptp.html can output to PCX, BMP, or PNG files. Then you can convert to TIFF. /gustav > Does anyone have any brilliant ideas on how I could automatically generate a > .tiff image for each page in a report? > Background: Our company stores issued drawings in .tiff format. In the > past, drawings have been scanned in manually in a reproduction department. > Currently, I issue drawings using Access reports. It has been suggested > that the .tiff creation MAY fall to the engineering department. -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com