<div>Hi Bob,</div> <div> </div> <div>Sorry top posted because well I'm lazy.</div> <div> </div> <div>I/we own a copy of Prin Wizard somewhere around here. It is old as we haven't used it since we had SCO-Unix (at least 6-7 yrs ago). </div> <div> </div> <div>4 questions....</div> <div> </div> <div>1. From emails of yours and others as well as our own experience that PW works well with filepro but dows PW work with other windows programs?</div> <div> </div> <div>2. What is the current cost of a single user copy of PW?</div> <div> </div> <div>3. On a somewhat different topic, I am in the process of writing my own report writer in filepro that will automatically allow a user to send a defined output as either a pdf file, csv or dif file, text file, html file or to a specific printer. Does PW work seamlessly? In short, I don't want the end user knowing how the document got there; just that it is there.</div>
<div> </div> <div>4. Also, during the PDF creation file can PW request a unique name for the file?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks in advance,</div> <div>Rick Hane</div> <div>Controller</div> <div>Deluxe Stitcher Company</div> <div><A href="http://www.deluxestitcher.com">www.deluxestitcher.com</A></div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Bob Rasmussen <ras@anzio.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Richard Hane wrote:<BR><BR>> fp version fpODBC 1.0.13 running on a XP Pro workstation<BR>> <BR>> Question.....<BR>> I am having a problem generating a pdf output from filepro. I use the PDF995 program. Works well on windows programs. The "printer" name as known to windows is "PDF995" and the port is "PDF995PORT".<BR>> <BR>> My printer definition is:<BR>> printer12: rickpdf, NOCODES, win: PDF995, PDF<BR>> <BR>> when I
generate an output from filepro it produces a file called filepro document and hangs (does not print) in the printer spool. Note: it is not generated as a PDF either. Finally, it does not ask for a file name.<BR>> <BR>> Am I doing this wrong? Should it be created to a file first?<BR>> <BR>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.<BR><BR>Depending on how you reference the printer in filePro, you may be simply <BR>sending the printer driver a stream of plain text. Most likely it can not <BR>handle input at this level, but instead wants data to be fed in via the <BR>Windows printing API. Other printer drivers exhibit this behavior, include <BR>The Microsoft Document Imaging driver and the Windows Journal driver (part <BR>of TabletPC). PaperPort may as well.<BR><BR>I believe there is a protocol in fP where you can refer to the printer as <BR>"WIN-something". I don't know if that would make a difference.<BR><BR>Even if you made this work, you would end up with plain text
going into a <BR>PDF. Nothing would control font size, margins, or spacing.<BR><BR>OTOH, if you send this data to Print Wizard, with it configured to <BR>generate PDF, first of it will work. It will auto-fit the text to the page <BR>(in the PDF) and will also understand backspace-bolding, for instance. You <BR>can then stop using NOCODES and instead use a PCL printer definition, and <BR>PW will create PDFs with font settings, pictures, etc. Finally, you can <BR>have PW email the created PDFs.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.<BR><BR>personal e-mail: ras@anzio.com<BR>company e-mail: rsi@anzio.com<BR>voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)<BR>fax: (US) 503-624-0760<BR>web: http://www.anzio.com<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>