Subject Re: Printing in dBase 2019 & DBF Files From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:43:33 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2025/02/21 15:39, Louis James wrote: > A Humble Good Morning to All: > > I will admit to being befuddled.  I am having a hard time wrapping my head around printing and reports in dBase 2019 and DBF files.  The one tutorial I find seems to focus more on ADO or SQL and the sort than using DBF files. > > I realize that SQL and/or ADO (like MariaDB (SQL) is the way to go.  But candidly, the application I developed was from long ago and heavily relies on DBF files.  And with that Crystal Reports.  I've been able to come up with a solution but I still believe I should master reports/printing via dBase. > > That said, I'm wondering if there are some tutorials/information I can use to study printing/reports in dBase that focus more on DBF's. > > Again, "old dog", "new tricks" and more importantly the amount of work to convert causes me to try my hardest to focus on dbf's instead of others. > > Any thoughts/guidance/prodding would be appreciated.  Thanks. > > Louis James Ken Mayer's dBASE Reports book would be a very good investment.   http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm You should also have a look at "Beginning Reports" https://www.dbase.com/dbasesql/beginner-topics/ and "Tricks with Reports and Labels" https://www.dbase.com/dbasesql/intermediate-topics/ both articles are by Ken but he goes into much more detail in his book. The report designer works perfectly well with .dbf files. Mervyn.