Specifications

Using the RichText presentation style
472 InfoMaker
You can use toolbars, editing keys, and a pop-up menu to specify formatting.
A print preview lets you view a reduced image of the document to see how it
fits on the page.
What is not supported
InfoMaker supports version 1.6 of the RTF standard, except for the following
features:
Formatted tables
Drawing objects
Using the RichText presentation style
The RichText presentation style allows you to combine input fields that
represent database columns with formatted text. This presentation style is
useful for display-only reports, especially mail-merge documents.
In the Design view, you see the text along with placeholders called input fields:
{FNAME} {LNAME}
{COMPANY_NAME}
{ADDRESS}
{CITY}, {STATE} {ZIP}
Dear {FNAME}:
. . .
In the Preview view, the text is the same, but InfoMaker replaces the input
fields with values from the database:
Beth Reiser
AMF Corp.
1033 Whippany Road
New York, NY 10154
Dear Beth:
. . .
Document template
The formatted text acts like a document template. There is only one copy of the
text. As the user scrolls from row to row, the data for the current row is inserted
in the input fields and the user sees the document with the current data. If the
user edits the text, the changes show up in every row of data.
Input fields
In the RichText presentation style, an input field is associated with a column or
computed field. It gets its value from the retrieved data or from the computed
field’s expression.