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From an elearning programme I have designed, I have developed a report output (effectively 5 separate screens), which I need to be able to print to file as one "5-page" document.

How do i do this, without creating 5 separate print commands (one for each page) and then manually merging the result. ta![/b]

Opus Pro XE 5.5

orienn


if I understand correctly, and your 5 report sections are set-up on 5 opus pages... then it is simple.
Create 1 button
Add 5 actions under the 1 Mouse-click trigger. (each action is Print >>> and simply select the Page. ) You will have 5 print actions that will execute in sequence.

Hint. Use a separate Chapter and have the "report screens" there if you want to control the page size for printing. Chapter Properties sets these.

I believe the part he's having problems with is how to take 5 Pages and put them all into one file. If it's all just TEXT, then you could do this:

On each of the 5 Report Pages you'll have to save all the text information to the Clipboard (Actions -> Clipboard -> Copy Object to Clipboard), then you need to do a "Copy Clipboard Text to Variable" for each Page. Save them as Report_1, Report_2, etc.

Create a sixth Variable called "Report_All." With each Page's text captured into its own Variable, you are ready to combine all 5 Variables by using "Programming -> Variables -> Set Variable." Do this five times, once for each Variable, each time saving the new content into Report_All. Remember to tick "Add to existing contents" at the bottom of the screen.

Your next step is "Action -> Storage -> Write to Disk File" in which you write Report_All to a text file like "Report_All.txt." Then the final step is to use "Print -> Print File" where you Print the contents of Report_All.

A variation on this would be to create a hidden Page with a Text Object that contains each of the Page Variables (Report_1, Report_2, etc), then just use the Print -> Print Page command.

This ONLY works with text.