Need filePro to Print Wizard to PDF help

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Richard Hane wrote:

> It's been years since I purchased Bob's print wizard and there it has sat on my shelp with a permentant spot on my to do list.  You know the one you keep moving down.
>  
> Now I have a project at work that I want to demo Monday morning and yes I want to print output seemlessly to pdfs from filePro.  I could read the manual but I just don't have the time on this project.
>  
> I know a lot of you use Print Wizard.  Can anyone send me a Cliff notes version?
>  
> filePro 5.6 running on a Windows network (Win 2003 & win 2000).  All printing will be to HP lasers.  Enetually I will want to tie this in to an auto attachment to Outlook emails via our enterprise server but that can wait for now.

Here are some points to get you started:

1) Get up to current version, even if it means working with a demo version 
for now.

2) Since your fP runs on Windows, you can use the PFPOSTPRINT mechanism, 
to cause fP to store a printout in a file and invoke printwiz.exe.

3) Tell fP either a) you're outputting for a PCL-5 printer, or b) that 
you're outputting for printwiz specifically (using the printwiz.prt file 
we include).

4) Control printwiz's options with command line parameters, part of your 
PFPOSTPRINT variable. You can either:

   a) set options individually in the command line;

or

   b) specify a profile, which you build with the Print Wizard User 
Interface (PWUI) program.

5) If your fP is outputting PCL-5, and printwiz is outputting to a printer 
(as opposed to PDF), investigate the translatepcl option.

6) PW has a pretty new command line switch, "/interactive", which lets you 
choose at print time how you want this job handled. Try it.

Down the road, we can get to programmatic control.

Hope that helps getting this to the front burner (mixing metaphors badly).

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

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