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[Nancy Palmquist]

Mark,

On 4/1/2010 4:22 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> Confusious (Rkreiss at verizon.net]) say:
>    
>> Ken,
>>
>> This is why is suugest using something like the Printwiz engine to
>> translate pcl to a markup language that these dumb printers understand.
>>
>> Now this begs the question if this can be done in one program from FPtech
>> or remains needing to use 2 output programs.
>>      
> As someone who develops middleware, I'd be a strong proponent of
> maintaining a two-program approach.  Rasmussen Software does PrintWiz, and
> they do it well.  Print translation is one of their areas of expertise.
> No offense to Ken or fP-Tech, but if it was an area of expertise (or a
> priority, given budget constraints) for them, such features probably would
> have materialised long ago in the core fP product.
>
> I see no reason to figuratively kick Rasmussen in the nuts.
I was surprised at this comment.  I was actually thinking they would be 
partnering to add the proper interface.
Not sure if Printwiz would be for that, but I hate going to multiple 
places for support.  The fewer sources you use to build the end product 
the easier it is to get help when you need it.

Nancy
>    Let each
> vendor play to their own strengths.  Especially when -somehow- that cost
> would have to be passed on to the user anyway...it makes no sense to have
> fP-Tech even try to roll in the package into their own.  The only real case
> for doing so is the convenience of a one stop shop.  In this case, I don't
> think it's worth harming a developer over the issue.  A bonus of keeping
> things separate is that it keeps costs -down- for those that don't need the
> features in the first place.
>
> mark->
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