Screen printing with PDF

[Richard Kreiss]

On 4/20/2016 6:48 PM, WILLIAM LUCCA via Filepro-list wrote:
> I have a client whose has almost all of his users defaulted to using the FPML format printer copies come to the screen first in PDF format (so type is FPML & destination is PDF:[open]).  Everything works great except when doing a hardcopy of a data entry screen.  It only comes to the screen after the user exits and goes back to the menu.  Is there any way around this, so it comes up immediately when the user presses "H"?  I have set FFHCFF=ON, and that works fine for anybody that goes directly to the printer, but doesn't change anything with the ones using PDF.
> Bill Lucca
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Bill,

I have seen this behavior on all kinds of print jobs from dclerk. My interpretation is that the print buffer needs to be manually closed.  
That is why it prints when you exit.

The HARDCOPY function is out of your control, but if you gave them a hot key like @keyM that they could hit after the hardcopy and you could try the following commands.

PRINTER FLUSH
PRINTER RESET

I have routines that change the printer during dclerk and I think that works for me.

* I have a note in my docs that PRINTER FLUSH does not work if you send your output to WIN:PRINTER, that might be because the Windows Spooler has some input.  But in other cases it should work.

Nancy

One could always do @keyH and create an option menu to create a pdf or just hard copy.

Dim hprint(3);hprint["1"]=Hardcopy";hprint["2"]="Create PDF";hprint["3"]="Cancel"
Sl=listobx(hpritn)
:sl="1":DOKEY "H"
:sl="2":GOTO mak_PDF
:sl="3":END

The PDF command still needs PDF: [open] 

The other choice would be to use (for windows) PDF: [printto] printer (works with dumb Windows Printers if print driver is installed) - This option would give a similar result as just hardcopy but would not require a PCL based printer.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting