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[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:02:36AM -0700):
> | On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, John Esak wrote:
> |
> | > Bob,
> | >
> | > I love your products... Anzio is great, and Print Wizard looks great, too.
> | > But, one clarification please. Don't you need a Windows box involved for
> | > Print Wizard to work? Does it work on a purely Unix system with lots of
> | > different printers? If so, how much does it cost, and is it based on number
> | > of users. How is it licensed? Is there a version for SCO 5.0.7?
> |
> | Print Wizard (the freestanding product) does in fact run on a Windows box.
> | Even if your focus is on Unix, there are several ways you could set up a
> | Windows box with Print Wizard to run as a printer server, supporting
> | multiple printers. The license is just $99, for support of up to 3
> | printers.
> |
> | I have done some work on making a Linux version of Print Wizard, although
> | SCO remains out of reach because it is not supported by my development
> | environment (Delphi/Kylix).  The big advantage that we have on Windows is
> | the printer driver support, which gives us a huge amount of device
> | independence. CUPS may give us that in Linux, but I haven't dug in far
> | enough yet to know. However, we may focus on PDF generation on Linux,
> | because that doesn't have any OS limitations.
>
> So wouldn't CUPS on OSR 5 give you that same independence?

As mentioned, CUPS may give me the printer device independence. However,
that does not solve the problem of porting to OSR5, because Print Wizard
is written in Delphi/Kylix, and that is not available on OSR5.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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