# Generating printed form output files

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-News-and-General-Topics\
**Created:** [June 21, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328 "2007-06-21T03:01:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328/1 "2007-06-21T03:01:34Z")

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Has anyone had experience with generating printed form output files from Natural - these are forms to be generated and output to some form of storage media and then printed by some third party vendor. We are looking at over 1 million forms.

Performance and efficiency is obviously a prime consideration here.

What options are available in Natural for generating these forms - PDF files, XML, etc, and what might be the preferred approach?

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328/2 "2007-06-21T03:20:24Z")

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Have you looked at the Natural Reporter for Natural Open Systems?

steve

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328/3 "2007-06-21T05:31:46Z")

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I have not used Reporter much but from what I know of it, it does not easily lend itself to creating reports from multiple Adabas files with report data and text created from complex logic.

I need to take another look at it to see if it has changed/improved in the last few years.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328/4 "2007-06-21T05:50:29Z")

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> [@Garry](#):
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> I have not used Reporter much but from what I know of it, it does not easily lend itself to creating reports from multiple Adabas files with report data and text created from complex logic.
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> I need to take another look at it to see if it has changed/improved in the last few years.

Yes indeed. I have been using Natural Reporter with multiple files for quite a few years. No problems at all. You simply design your Report using “dummy” field names. Then you write a Natural program, with as complex logic and as many files as you would like.

The output of the Natural program is a Workfile, which is then used by the Natural Reporter Report.

If you have any problems, e-mail me (address below)

steve

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/generating-printed-form-output-files/62328/5 "2021-04-02T14:41:15Z")

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