Needed: Printwiz guru

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Frank McKinney wrote:

> I am having problems getting Rasmussen Software's Printwiz 2.6k to
> work in conjunction with filePro 5.0,  SCO 5.0.5 and a  Lanier
> 5613 printer/copier. (The 5613 is a private label version of RICOH
> Aficio 1013F) Somehow my problem seems to be in getting the
> Printwiz to interact with the output stream and to cause the
> Printwiz commands to control and alter the output. As a result my
> printer output is in the default Courier style and spacing. If you
> have experience in dealing with this problem, I would appreciate
> your help. I believe that I am capable of describing the problem
> and following your instructions in solving it.  If interested,
> please contact me by e-mail concerning your rates and how we can
> work together.

We DO do customer support...

Try running Print Wizard with a "/debug" command line parameter. This will
cause it to give you some information about what it is doing.

My best guess is that the data contains escape codes, which will cause PW
to go into "spooler mode", where it is completely transparent. Then if the
escape codes aren't correct for the printer, you'll have problems.

Print Wizard works well when you send it plain text. It will auto-fit the
data to the page.

Print Wizard works BEST when you send it Print Wizard Markup Language
(PWML), which allows you to control all kinds of things about its output,
using the Windows printer driver.

But embedded escape characters will disable both those modes.

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

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