pdf creation

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:26:28AM -0600, Rod Caddy wrote:
> I have seen all of the emails and am currently working on an easy 
> solution to creating, printing, emailing, and faxing the pdf format from 
> inside filepro.  At the risk of sounding stupid or at the very least 
> ignorant, I do not quite understand why filepro will not print to many 
> of the converters that are available on the market that set themselves 
> up as a windows printer.  It will send the output to the ether and never 
> be heard from.  I am sure that this has been discussed here before but I 
> have been unable to find it and my grey matter seems to be getting 
> grayer by the day.  Thanks for your response.

TTBOMK, Rod, that's not actually a problem; I'm reasonably certain that
people are setting, for example, PrintWizard up on a Windows machine,
exporting it with SMB, and pulling it into a *nix box to print to it.

By "reasonably certain", I mean "I'm pretty sure I've heard reports
here that it works for people".  I just don't recall whom at the
moment.

Now, on the other hand, there are many people for whom the idea of
putting in a Windows machine in an otherwise all-Unix environment -- or
even merely putting one on their critical path -- is roughly akin to
cutting off their own head with a rusty machete.  I'm one of those.

We want a *native* solution.

I gather ghostpcl, as advocated by JPR and Brian White, will fill that
need, though I won't have time to find out personally until sometime
next week.  Thanks, Brian, for the pointer to your binaries page, BTW.

Cheers,
-- jra
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