~~~~~RE: Preview of Print Wizard 4

[John Esak]

Wow! I'm impressed... But your stuff always wows me...

Would it be possible for you to explain what you did in this demo in filePro
terms?. I know how to make an overlay. But, what are you calling the report
data?  That is to say, it looked like a form's worth of data. Would this
represent one record's worth of data for this form overlay?   Are you saying
one record's worth of data needs to be dumped into a file and then Print
Wizard works with the overlay file and this file of dumped data?  Or , does
Print Wizard work with the filePro output format in any way?  I'm sorry to
have no previous knowledge of Print Wizard and creating overlays.  I have
always done these manually with the help of Jim Asman.  We make an overlay
file of say the company logo, and static form content.  Put that in
something say called "form.ini" and then build a filePro format as normal,
and this prints as normal with the overlay being triggered as a macro. That
is downloaded to the printer ahead of the form data .  So, we are only
inside filePro's report/form designer... How do we get to use the nifty
graphical push and pull you show here?zxc

Did I say any of that so you could understand it Bob?  I know I didn't.  I
guess what I'm asking is for you to talk me through this demo using filePro
terminology if it is possible.

Thanks,

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:26 PM
> To: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Preview of Print Wizard 4
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have previously mentioned on this list that Print Wizard 4 
> was in beta. 
> It still is. I've now placed a 2-minute video demonstration 
> outside the 
> beta group, and invite you to take a look.
> 
> The premise is that someone's trying to move away from 
> preprinted forms, 
> to a laser printer, using Print Wizard to do form overlay 
> printing. We've 
> done that for quite a while. What's new is "placement" -- 
> being able to 
> interactively size and place the overlay, and the data on top 
> of it, in 
> order to fit everything in the printable space of the printer.
> 
> Take a look (with audio):
>    http://www.anzio.com/~ras/printwiz40/preview-placement.wmv
> 
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 
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