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If you are using an AcImageControl then there is a property called FileNameExp. In here you can put a database field name or variable name. In your case you will use a variable and in the OnRead of the DataRow update that variable with the path to the image you want to insert. You may also...

No we had no success. We ended up printing the report to a postscript file then writing a utility in C to find and replace some characters we had inserted in the report. The characters were replaced with postscript commands to change printer bins.

I have been developing in Actuate for 4 years and have the following issues. 1. The product is buggy 2. The documentation is as rather light 3. Actuate support is appalling, they are unresponsive unless you a re a very large company. 4. The product lacks fundamental functionality that a...

Can anyone tell me how to change the "Link" information for an OLE control at runtime? I want to store the location of the linked file in my database rather than have it hard coded in the report. eg the information you set up in the Edit>>Links menu item.

Does anyone know if it is possible to embed PCL or Postscript into actuate reports so the printer settings can be changed at different pages of the report.

Heres the answer "One can specify which printer tray to use when printing the report using the Actuate Requester API AcReqSetPrintTray. This API allows to set the printer tray to use for the complete report and it is not possible to use print different sections of the report to...

Is there a way of controlling which printer tray each page of a report is printed from within the report. i.e. I want to print every Group Header from a tray with letterhead in it and all other pages from a different tray.