Generating Date

can a space be created by CorelDraw X6, every time a the template is called this space will apply today's date to it, and print it on my parts, it's a new requirement for the produced parts where I work.

  • You may want to try one of the macro site, Jeff Harrison comes to mind. Shelby Moore also.

    • Hi Roy, your link had a problem behind the scenes, here is correct one

      There is something screwy with links, I noticed same problem on my correction!

      • Jeff Harrison said:

        Hi Roy, your link had a problem behind the scenes, here is correct one

        There is something screwy with links, I noticed same problem on my correction!

        That's very strange. It used to be a requirement in XHTML (as a subset of XML) that certain reserved characters should be encoded inside web links. An ampersand is a reserved character. The encoding for it is either "&" or "%26" (%26 is the hexadecimal equivalent of &). It's no longer a requirement in HTML5, but it should still work.

        I've tested the link to macromonster with both of these character entities substituted for the "&" and while "%26" sort of works (it doesn't go to the correct page, but it doesn't generate the SQL error), for some reason "&" doesn't. And I didn't change the link manually when I inserted it, so how come my link was changed to an encoded entity for "&" and yours wasn't. Very odd.

        • RoyReed said:
          And I didn't change the link manually when I inserted it, so how come my link was changed to an encoded entity for "&" and yours wasn't. Very odd.

          Not sure, I somehow forced mine to work after some fiddling around. In another thread today, I put a link in and it worked OK the first time. The best route is for users to actually test their links in the post to ensure they work a expected (a good policy anyway).

        • HI Roy, I think the error is with this forum not properly handling ampersands found inside links.

        • I used to do the same thing in X4. Used a macro called AntiPoetics_CDMacros. Had a lot of macros that would copy file path, copy date, etc. I used it in conjunction with my own macro that would find text "named" "Date" and replace it with the current date. Don't know about X6 but it doesn't work for X7. Currently working another method using SendKeys to start notepad, hit F5, hit cntrl+a, hit cntrl+c, then close. Time and date will be copied to the clipboard.