Blank pdf creation

[Richard Hane]

[ sorry top posted ]

Thank you to Richard, Mark and Ken,

Actually I own printwiz3.0.  And yes use it and it does work very well (nice 
program Bob).

I was trying this approach for costs reasons.

When I retire in 3 years I will be selling my plant management & scheduling 
software (written in fp of course).  I was trying to limit the number of 
programs a user would have to purchase (ie. filePro, Printwiz, mine, plus a few 
others).

After checking a little deeper, I found that Ken's thoughts were correct.  
CutePDF will work great if called from a true Windows program where the font and 
codes are being driven by the host program.

Again,
Thanks for the help all.
Rick Hane
Controller
Deluxe Stitcher Company Inc
www.deluxestitcher.com

 



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From: Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net>
To: Richard Hane <yoresoft at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 4:34:10 PM
Subject: RE: Blank pdf creation

Rick,

I don't know what your time is worth but I have been using printwiz to do
this both on my development machine and at a client's site.

There are a number of ways to have printwiz do this after  filepro sends the
output to a .txt file.

1. use pfpostprint
2. create a process which uses system to convert the file.
3. create a process which hands off the files name to printwiz run from a
batch file.  Uses putenv() to set the variables.
4. use printwiz server addition and create a windows service.

I am actually using all of these methods at my client's site since they only
recently installed the server edition. 

This is actually the fastest method as the service monitors the assigned
directory(folder) looking for .txt files and then created the pdf in another
folder.  My client is running a daily set of reports each AM.  That's 140
separate reports and the processes takes less than 5 minutes.

I will be converting the other group of reports shortly to use the service
also.

You might want to download the demo version of printwiz and try it out.

Bob Rasmussen,  President,  Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
          voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
            fax: (US) 503-624-0760
            web: http://www.anzio.com
street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                Portland, OR  97223  USA

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

PS:

By the way, using printwiz on my own machine saves me a lot of paper.  I can
test outputs and see how they look without having to actually print it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hane
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:42 PM
> To: Kenneth Brody
> Cc: user list; Rick Hane
> Subject: Re: Blank pdf creation
> 
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> ________________________________
> 
> From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> To: Richard Hane <yoresoft at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: user list <filepro-list at seaslug.org>; Rick Hane
<rhane at deluxestitcher.com>
> Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 12:05:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Blank pdf creation
> 
> Ken,
> 
> I am using HP-2100.  You may be correct that CutePDF Writer.
> 
> However, it is frustrating that I can generate the output from fp to a
text file
> then call the document using notepad and select file \ print \ cutepdf and
the
> output works.  I just can't seem to ty the two together.
> 
> Thanks
> Rick
> 
> On 7/13/2010 11:46 AM, Richard Hane wrote:
> >> I need a little help as my old age is creeping in again...
> >>
> >> I am trying to generate an output from filepro (5.0.14 ODBC Network
version)
> >to
> >> a pdf.
> >>
> >> I have a printer defined in filepro using location as win:CutePDFW
(which is
> >>the
> >> shared name).
> [...]
> 
> > What printer type are you using?  Does CutePDF support such output? 
(ie: if
> >you are using a PCL print code table, does CutePDF support PCL?)  I >
have seen
> >Windows PDF printer drivers that only accept Windows GDI, so they're like
those
> >dumb "Windows-only printers".
> 
> > -- Kenneth Brody
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