pdf creation

[Kenneth Brody]

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.

The direct-to-PDF generators for Windows only work via the GDI printing
interface.  They do not intercept "normal" output streams and emulate a
printer of some sort.  (Just as there are some "Windows only" printers
that intercept output from 16-bit DOS programs and emulate PCL, but do
not intercept output from 32-bit Windows programs.)

In order for filePro to use such a printer directly (or any GDI-only
printer, for that matter), we would either have to do away with print
codes (which are meaningless to GDI), or build in something like Print
Wizard.

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