Survey: Is you filePro application online?

[Bob Rasmussen]

If the only thing on the end user's desktop is a web browser, then 
printing can be a serious problem. Web browsers are notoriously bad ad 
printing, although getting better. You don't know what kind of printer the 
end user has, and even if you knew, you couldn't deal with it.

The usual solution is to create a PDF. This has its own challenges.

[AD] We offer Print Wizard in the form of an ActiveX object (an OCX); we 
call this WePO for "Web Print Object". This is a chunk of code that gets 
downloaded to the client's machine (which must be Windows), and appears 
there on the web page as a button that says "Print". When the user presses 
it, the code fetches a specified file from an HTTP[S] or FTP location, and 
prints it. It can be plain text, PCL-5, or PWML. It can include an 
overlay. In short, virtually all of the power of Print Wizard. More info 
at the website below.

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
 street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                 Portland, OR  97223  USA