[Logic] Report Writer/Editor

[Arthur Tan]

Hi Tony,

>From wb2jri@juno.com 30/Mar/02 03:10 PM -0500:

>           Now that you have a look at LOGic 6 Repot editor has Dennis
> improved it, other then the way reports are saved. LOGic 5 only allow
> you to copy the reports provided an modify them into what you want.

Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on how you look at it) I think the
Report Writer in LOGic 6 is similar to the one in LOGic 5, namely, it
does not let you design a report from scratch.  Having said that, an
alternative is to just copy one of the reports, erase everything in it,
save it under a different name, and use it as a "building block" for
your own self-designed reports.

> I was hoping that LOGic 6 would allow you to make reports from scratch
> like LOGic 4 was. I designed a number of picture Qsl's that way and
> had to retro then for LOGic 5.  I hoped that Dennis would put in a
> more powerful Report editor in ver. 6 with better editting tools like
> in ver. 4

This is an interesting topic and one I think should be discused on the
reflector.  What do you see are the benefits of having the capability to
design reports from scratch as opposed to just modifying one that is
included in LOGic 5/6?  It's been many years since I last used LOGic 4
(I think LOGic 5 came out in 1997 and I switched to 5 from 4 pretty
early on) so I don't really remember the report writer from version 4.
As an aside, I am most impressed by what K1UQ has done with LOGic 5 and
printing directly on QSL's.  That's my next goal.  I'm getting a little
tired of labels.  See his web page at www.k1uq.com

73, Art AB4RL