PFPOSTPRINT in a Windows filePro

[Don Coleman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Rasmussen [mailto:ras at anzio.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:58 PM
> To: Don Coleman
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: PFPOSTPRINT in a Windows filePro
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if you can give me and a customer some help in how you enter
> PFPOSTPRINT commands for using Print Wizard. He is a little shaky on
> environment variables, and how this all works.
> 
> 1. Do you set environment variables before running filePro, or inside
> filePro (at what level)?

For users who always print to the same printer I set the environment in the
start-up batch such as:
SET PFPOSTPRINT=C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT (routes to the
Windows default printer.

I have some users that need a report to print to one printer and send a copy
to another printer.  In this case I start my menu script to:

SET PFPOSTPRINT=C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT (if printing
to the Windows default printer)
Or 
SET PFPOSTPRINT=C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE /PMY_LASER_PRINTER
C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT (routed to a specific Windows printer)

Then to send the copy to another printer reset PFPOSTPRINT after the fP
output process completes
SET PFPOSTPRINT=C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE /PMY_OTHER_LASER_PRINTER
C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT (routed to a specific Windows printer)

If setting/overriding the environment within processing there are a number
of different syntaxes available:
Putenv "PFPOSTPRINT","C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE /P\MY_LASER\"
C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT"
Or
AA(30,*)="C:\PRINTWIZ\PRINTWIZ.EXE;AB(30,*)="C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT"
Putenv "PFPOSTPRINT",AA<AB


> 2. What exactly do you set the PFPOSTPRINT to?

See above examples

> 3. Does this force fP to write the printfile to disk (instead of printing
> it), or does that require a separate operation/variable/configuration?

Yes, my config file specifies that when a particular fP printer is
specified, it prints to file C:\PRINTWIZ\FILE.TXT.  PFPOSTPRINT is then
called upon completion which causes Print Wizard to process the file.
 
 
> In his example, the command he needs to execute is simply
>    c:\program files\printwiz30\printwiz.exe somefilename.txt
> 
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 
> personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
>  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
>           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
>             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
>             web: http://www.anzio.com


Don Coleman
Donald G. Coleman, Consultant
402 Andrew Circle
Indiana, PA 15701
dcoleman at dgcreact.com
(724) 349-6302