How I used Printwizard

[Bob Simcoe]

Bob
I emailed you and the List, a week or so ago asking how to get started using the Print Wizard Demo to turn my FP5.0, Windows, printouts with Print Codes to my HP-4050 to PDF's.
Here's what worked for me.
The the following input processing  uses Reader to display the PDF generated by PW  of an Invoice selected from Field 1 input, for viewing, printing, emailing etc. My only problem, Print Wizard UI solved, by allowing me to tell PW where to send the PDF.  It  had to be in C:\stprt. The PW default was in \Documents and Settings\……\Print Wizard 4 on my workstation. Our IT people don't allow workstations access to the path beginning with Documents & Settings (this took me a over an hours to figure out) . We're only allowed access to the C:\stprt directory.
Line 8 did the conversion perfectly.
Also, unexpected, I was working on this from home using gotomypc, and I was able to easily print the pdf to the dumb windows printer attached to my laptop.
Everyone here loves the results, and I know PW can do much more. There are 11 of us, should we purchase 1 Print Wizard 4 for each, or is there a version to put on the server?
Note: I always program on a Stand file in Add Records Mode. The TAB to exit, I kept from the Tandy Accounting Package days. This is just test processing, if a existing
invoice number wasn't entered, Reader would just present a blank. FP is on the S Drive.

  1  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If:
       Then: end
  2  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
@wlf1  ◄ If: @sk eq "rtab"
       Then: delete ; close ; exit
  3  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'save inputed Invoice Number for Output Selection
       Then: putenv "invno",1
  4  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'name the output txt file with the actual Invoice Number
       Then: ptxtfile = "C:\stprt\Inv" & 1 & ".txt"
  5  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'name the output pdf file
       Then: pdffile = "Inv" & 1 & ".pdf"
  6  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'print HP-4050 output as  txt file to C:\stprt directory
       Then: system "\fp\dreport SILines -f ILines -v sILines -ij -a -p" < ptxtfile
  7  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'change directory
       Then: chdir "C:\stprt"
  8  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'use printwiz to generate txt to pdf
       Then: system "C:\Program Files\Rasmussen Software, Inc\Print Wizard 4\printwiz" < ptxtfile < "/pdf /quiet"
  9  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'use Reader to display & process pdf file
       Then: system "start AcroRd32.exe" < pdffile
10  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If: 'change back to original directory
       Then: chdir "S:"
11  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
       ◄ If:
       Then: 1 = "" ; screen  ,1
12  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
declare◄ If:
       Then: declare ptxtfile , pdffile


Bob Simcoe
CFO
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