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<DIV>Thank you to Richard, Mark and Ken,</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually I own printwiz3.0. And yes use it and it does work very well (nice program Bob).</DIV>
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<DIV>I was trying this approach for costs reasons.</DIV>
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<DIV>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).</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Again,</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the help all.</DIV>
<DIV>Rick Hane</DIV>
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<DIV>Deluxe Stitcher Company Inc</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.deluxestitcher.com">www.deluxestitcher.com</A></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Richard Kreiss <rkreiss@verizon.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Richard Hane <yoresoft@sbcglobal.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, July 13, 2010 4:34:10 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: Blank pdf creation<BR></FONT><BR>Rick,<BR><BR>I don't know what your time is worth but I have been using printwiz to do<BR>this both on my development machine and at a client's site.<BR><BR>There are a number of ways to have printwiz do this after filepro sends the<BR>output to a .txt file.<BR><BR>1. use pfpostprint<BR>2. create a process which uses system to convert the file.<BR>3. create a process which hands off the files name to printwiz run from a<BR>batch file. Uses putenv() to set the variables.<BR>4. use printwiz server addition and create a windows service.<BR><BR>I am actually using all of these
methods at my client's site since they only<BR>recently installed the server edition. <BR><BR>This is actually the fastest method as the service monitors the assigned<BR>directory(folder) looking for .txt files and then created the pdf in another<BR>folder. My client is running a daily set of reports each AM. That's 140<BR>separate reports and the processes takes less than 5 minutes.<BR><BR>I will be converting the other group of reports shortly to use the service<BR>also.<BR><BR>You might want to download the demo version of printwiz and try it out.<BR><BR>Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.<BR><BR>personal e-mail: <A href="mailto:ras@anzio.com" ymailto="mailto:ras@anzio.com">ras@anzio.com</A><BR>company e-mail: <A href="mailto:rsi@anzio.com" ymailto="mailto:rsi@anzio.com">rsi@anzio.com</A><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>street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.<BR> 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9<BR> Portland, OR 97223 USA<BR><BR>Richard Kreiss<BR>GCC Consulting<BR><BR>PS:<BR><BR>By the way, using printwiz on my own machine saves me a lot of paper. I can<BR>test outputs and see how they look without having to actually print it.<BR><BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=<A href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com">verizon.net@lists.celestial.com</A><BR>[mailto:filepro-list-<BR>> bounces+rkreiss=<A href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com">verizon.net@lists.celestial.com</A>] On Behalf Of Richard
Hane<BR>> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:42 PM<BR>> To: Kenneth Brody<BR>> Cc: user list; Rick Hane<BR>> Subject: Re: Blank pdf creation<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ________________________________<BR>> <BR>> From: Kenneth Brody <<A href="mailto:kenbrody@spamcop.net" ymailto="mailto:kenbrody@spamcop.net">kenbrody@spamcop.net</A>><BR>> To: Richard Hane <<A href="mailto:yoresoft@sbcglobal.net" ymailto="mailto:yoresoft@sbcglobal.net">yoresoft@sbcglobal.net</A>><BR>> Cc: user list <<A href="mailto:filepro-list@seaslug.org" ymailto="mailto:filepro-list@seaslug.org">filepro-list@seaslug.org</A>>; Rick Hane<BR><<A href="mailto:rhane@deluxestitcher.com" ymailto="mailto:rhane@deluxestitcher.com">rhane@deluxestitcher.com</A>><BR>> Sent: Tue, July 13, 2010 12:05:37 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: Blank pdf creation<BR>> <BR>> Ken,<BR>> <BR>> I am using HP-2100. You may be correct
that CutePDF Writer.<BR>> <BR>> However, it is frustrating that I can generate the output from fp to a<BR>text file<BR>> then call the document using notepad and select file \ print \ cutepdf and<BR>the<BR>> output works. I just can't seem to ty the two together.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks<BR>> Rick<BR>> <BR>> On 7/13/2010 11:46 AM, Richard Hane wrote:<BR>> >> I need a little help as my old age is creeping in again...<BR>> >><BR>> >> I am trying to generate an output from filepro (5.0.14 ODBC Network<BR>version)<BR>> >to<BR>> >> a pdf.<BR>> >><BR>> >> I have a printer defined in filepro using location as win:CutePDFW<BR>(which is<BR>> >>the<BR>> >> shared name).<BR>> [...]<BR>> <BR>> > What printer type are you using? Does CutePDF support such output? <BR>(ie: if<BR>> >you are using a PCL print code table, does CutePDF
support PCL?) I ><BR>have seen<BR>> >Windows PDF printer drivers that only accept Windows GDI, so they're like<BR>those<BR>> >dumb "Windows-only printers".<BR>> <BR>> > -- Kenneth Brody<BR>> -------------- next part --------------<BR>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> URL: http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-<BR>> list/attachments/20100713/a633b657/attachment.html<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Filepro-list mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</A><BR>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>