Easiest way to print to pdf

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/15/2014 12:05 AM, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
> I'm running server 2003 R2, soon to be going to server 2008 and filepro
> version 5.0.09DN9. My invoices are simple text documents and I was
> thinking it could be as easy as just installing a pdf printer and
> pointing the output to that printer but it doesn't seem to work quite
> like that, nothing happens.

Anything which is installed as a "printer driver" in Windows, such as a "PDF 
printer", requires that the application print via the Windows GDI printing 
API, which filePro does not.  Rather, filePro sends raw data to the printer. 
  Since the "PDF printer" can't handle raw data, nothing prints.  (Same 
thing for those wonder "host-based" printers, which are incapable of 
printing something as simple as the letter "A" unless you send it a picture 
of what that "A" should look like.)

> Since I see some discussion about pdf files going on I figured it might
> be a good time to ask this question.

You could use the filePro 5.7 built-in PDF generator.

-- 
Kenneth Brody