Convert a String to a Picture With Drawing()

combit List & Label Designer

combit List & Label

Convert a String to a Picture With Drawing()

The "Drawing()" function converts a string to an image file.

Example:

Drawing("sunshine.gif")

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Inserting a Company Logo Into the Report

Adding a Title to the Report

Insert the Table for the Product List

Formatting Table Fields

Displaying a Preview of the Report

Adding a Page Number

Print or Export the Report

Producing a Simple Invoice

Create a New Print Template

Adding a Company Logo

Add the Address Field

Create Invoice Header With Number and Date

Adding the Item List

Alignment and Formatting

Background Color and Frame

Invoice Footer With Totals

Create Additional Footer Lines

Creating a Simple Label

Insert Object

Printing Labels

Effective Workspace Techniques

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Choosing a Page Layout

View Mode

Status Line

Mini Toolbar

Default Settings for Font and Frame

Real Data Preview

Arrangement and Alignment of the Objects

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Guides in the Workspace

Size and Position of Objects

Grouping of Objects

Multiple Copies of Objects

Mastering Appearance Conditions

Where Will the Objects be Printed?

Working With Appearance Conditions

Working With Layers

Defining Layers

Assigning Objects to a Layer

Practice: Create a Mail Merge Project

Create a New Print Template

Adding a Company Logo

Add the Address Field

Adding the Date and Page Number

Adding Formatted Text for the Letter

Adjusting the Position of the Letter Text for Following Pages

Assigning Objects to the Layer

Creating Professional Tables

Using Advanced Features With the Report Structure

Practice: Defining the Report Structure Correctly

Modifying the Fields and Columns

Mini Toolbar

Object Dialog

Defining Multiple Line Layouts

Defining Column Contents

Defining Group Lines

Table Layouts

Align Columns

Fixed Size

Printing Header Lines and Footer Lines Again

Defining the Size of the Table Variably

Forcing a New Page

Creating a Conditional Page Break

Keeping Lines Together

Defining Totals and Counters

Outputting Free Content Before and After a Table

Defining Columns Across Multiple Lines

Producing Analyses

Creating Charts

Inserting a Chart Object

Creating a Pie Chart

Creating a Multi-Row Bar Chart

100% Stacked Bar Chart

Multi-Row Line Chart

Using Series to Determine the Values

Special Fields With Diagrams

Creating Gauges

Inserting a Gauge

Specify Properties

Creating a Crosstab

Creating a Crosstab Object

Defining Groupings

Defining Cell Properties

The Layout Option and Wrapping Behavior

Special Functions

Creating Statistical Reports With Footers

Drilldown Reports (Increase Detail Level)

Multi-Column Reports

Advanced Functions

Linking Objects

Object List

Creating Interlinks

Sequential Interlinking

The Individual Size and Position Adaptations

The "at end, keep size" Interlink

Working With Sum Variables

Working With User Variables

Project Includes

Displaying HTML Pages

Adding OLE Documents

Adding Form Template Objects

Importing Objects

Different Layout Techniques

Specifying the Page Layout

Printer Settings

Size Adjustment

Use Physical Page

Force Paper Size

Export Media

Templates for Label Formats

Defining Your Own Label Format

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Layout Regions

Active Design Layout

Practice: Report With Different Page Orientations

Practice: Managing Issues (Copies)

Practice: Payment Form on the Last Page

Output Options

Output Options

Real Data Preview

Export in another Format (PDF, XLS ...)

Print Sample in the Designer

Variables, Formulae and Expressions

Variable List

The Elements of an Expression

Different Expression Modes

The Tabs

The Editing Line

Inserting Variables

Insert Fixed Text

Inserting Linefeed

Inserting Tab Stops

Inserting Comments

Working With Functions

Notation of Functions

Value Types

Overview of the Functions

Using Functions

Convert a Number to a String With Str$()

Convert a String to a Number With Val().

Convert a String to a Date With Date()

Convert a String to a Barcode With Barcode()

Convert a String to a Picture With Drawing()

Truncate Strings

Formatting a Data Value With Date$()

Formatting a Number Value With FStr$()

Formatting Currencies With LocCurrL$() or LocCurr$()

Page Numbers With Page$() or Page()

Counting Values With Count()

Only Count Certain Values With CountIf()

Totaling With Sum()

Obtaining User Input via a Dialog With AskString$()

Appearance Conditions With Lastpage()

Logical Conditions With Cond()

Working With Null Values

Working With Operators

Arithmetic Operators

Relational Operators

Logical Operators

Overview of LL Variables and LL Fields

Overview of Variables

Overview of Fields

Overview of Functions

Abs

AddDays

AddHours

AddMinutes

AddMonths

AddSeconds

AddWeeks

AddYears

Alias$

ArcCos

ArcSin

ArcTan

Asc

AskString$

AskStringChoice$

ATrim$

Avg

Barcode

Barcode$

BarcodeType$

BasedStr$

BinaryAND

BinaryNOT

BinaryOR

BinarySHL

BinarySHR

BinaryXOR

BMPMapToGray

BMPRotate

Capitalize$

Case$

Ceil

Century

CheckMod10

Chr$

ChrSubst$

Cond

Constant.Pi

Contains

Continued

Cos

Count

CountIf

Crosstab.Cells.Avg

Crosstab.Cells.Max

Crosstab.Cells.Min

Crosstab.Col$

Crosstab.Col

Crosstab.Row$

Crosstab.Row

Crosstab.Value

CStr$

Date

Date$

DateDiff

DateDiff$

DateHMS

DateInLeapYear

DateInRange

DateToJulian

DateYMD

Day

Day$

Decade

Distinct

Dow

Dow$

Drawing

Drawing$

DrawingHeightSCM

DrawingWidthSCM

Empty

EndsWith

Evaluate

Even

Exists

Exp

Exp10

FirstHeaderThisTable

Floor

Frac

FStr$

GeometricAvg

GetValue

GetVar

Hour

HSL

Hyperlink$

If

IssueIndex

Int

IsNull

IsNullOrEmpty

Join$

JulianToDate

LangCase$

LastFooterThisTable

Lastpage

Left$

Len

LoadFile$

Locale$

LocCurr$

LocCurrL$

LocDate$

LocDateTime

LocNumber$

LocTime$

LocVal

Log

Log10

Lower$

LTrim$

Max

Maximum

Median

Mid$

Min

Minimum

Minute

Mode

Month

Month$

Now

NthLargest

NthLargestIndex

NthValue

Null

NullSafe

NumInRange

Odd

Ord

Page

Page$

Pow

Previous

PreviousUsed

ProjectParameter$

ProjectPath$

Quarter

RainbowColor

RegExMatch$

RegExSubst$

RemainingTableSpace

Rep$

RGB

Right$

Round

RTrim$

Second

SetVar

Sign

Sin

Sqrt

StartsWith

StdDeviation

Str$

StrPos

StrRPos

StrSubst$

Sum

Tan

Time$

Today

Token$

ToRTF$

Total$

TotalPages$

Translate$

UnitFromSCM

Upper$

Val

Variance

Woy

Year

Year$

Overview of Properties

Project Properties

General Settings

Project Description

Active Design Layout

Number of Issues

Display Condition for Issue Print

Embedding Drilldown Reports

Minimum Page Count

Transition Effects for Slideshow

Fax and Mail Variables

Common Object Properties

Locked

Name

Display Condition for Issue Print

Appearance Condition

Levels in the Table of Contents

Page Break Before Outputting Object

Export as Picture

Position

Font

Color

Background / Filling

Pattern

Frame

Format

Content

Text Objects

Object Properties

Paragraph Properties

Line Objects

Object Properties

Rectangle Objects

Object Properties

Circles and Ellipses

Object Properties

Picture Objects

Object Properties

Barcode Objects

Object Properties

Barcode Content

Supported Barcode Formats

Overview of the General 1-D Codes

Overview of the General 2-D Codes

Overview of Post Codes (1-D and 2-D Codes)

Report Container Object

Object Properties

Element Properties

Table Objects

Object Properties

Line Properties

Group Line Properties

Column Properties

Chart Objects

Object Properties

Special Fields

Pie Chart: Data Source

Pie Chart: Pie Segment

Pie Chart: Diagram

Bars/Lines: Category and Series Axes

Bars/Lines: Value Axis Settings

Bars/Lines: Diagram

Object (All Diagram Types)

Colors (All Diagram Types)

Gauge Objects

Object Properties

Content

Crosstab Objects

Object Properties

Special Functions

Cell Properties

Properties for the Crosstab Area

Formatted Text Objects

Object Properties

Form Control Objects

Edit

Checkbox

Combobox

Button

HTML Text Objects

Object Properties

Object Content

OLE Container

Object Properties

Form Template Objects

Object Properties

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