Liveware Publishing Support Forum

Dear Friends,____ I use rrcnvrt.exe to convert .RP1 librairies to .RP5 (then, in .RP5, I extract/save them to .RRW files).____ In every case (so far), the reports so extracted come up with New Courier type fonts. I have to go in to each of these reports and laboriously change all my fields to *my* default (i.e., Arial 10pt).____ Also, the many boxes lines, etc I draw are emulated in the converted report as normal printable ASCII characters (ugly in the converted report).____Question:____ Is there a way to get RRCVRT to use Arial 10pt (or some other Win font) rather than the ugly New courier ??____ Or, could I go into the original .rp1 library (with my DOS 6.0a version) and set *something* so that conversion would not come across as courier ??____TIA,____-Mel Smith__

RRCNVRT.EXE uses a file called RRWFIF.INI to determine what fonts to use when converting from DOS to Windows.__RRWFIF.INI is a text file that is found in the R&R program directory.__There is a named section for each of the FIF font information files that shipped with the DOS release. At the top of the file is a section for reports without attached FIF^s.__Here is the contents of the None section.____None__10=Courier-LD,Courier New,Courier__12=Courier-LD,Courier New,LinePrinter,Courier__Compressed=Courier-LD,LinePrinter,Courier New,Courier__CompPitch=17______So for a report using 10 pitch/no FIF, we will in turn substiture each of the fonts in the comma separated list. So if your report has no fif and you want to convert to Arial, you could edit this section to read:__[None]__10=Arial,Courier-LD,Courier New,Courier__12=Arial,Courier-LD,Courier New,LinePrinter,Courier__Compressed=Arial,Courier-LD,LinePrinter,Courier New,Courier__CompPitch=17____After saving RRWFIF.INI, you would need to re-run the conversion program.____Kathleen__R&R Support

Kathleen,____ Thank you for the instruction. I^ll try it this afternoon.______-Mel Smith__

Kathleen,____ It worked great (except I had to replace all the ^lines^ I had drawn under column headings).____Thanks a lot !____-Mel Smith__