1.       Yes.

2.       Yes.  I have a Win7-64bit and a Win8-64bit and both works with vDos.

 

Ed.

 

From: Jon [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 11:11 AM
To: 'Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED'
Subject: RE: [Dataperf] Dosprinter working in Vdos

 

Ed & Gerard:

 

PDF port would be a solution but a couple of questions

 

1.  Does DPSpool take the formatting in the report and turn that all into PDF?

 

2.  Does DPSpool work with vDOS on a 64bit win 7 PC?

 

Thanks for your interest!

 

Jon

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:58 AM
To: 'Dataperfect Users Discussion Group'
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Dosprinter working in Vdos

 

Jon, you mentioned your goal is for DP output into PDF …

I generate invoices from DP to a PDF file all the time.  No problem at all.  I 
use DPSPOOL and assign the PDF port as one of the printer options.

Ed.

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerard van Loenhout
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:13 AM
To: Jon Ong
Cc: Jos Schaars; Dataperfect Users Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Dosprinter working in Vdos

 

Hello Jon,

 

I use bullzip in combination with DP and vDosto make PDFs..

 

In config.txt

 

LPT3 = /SEL'Bullzip PDF printer' /CPIA /LEFT0.50 /TOP0.50 

 

Gerard 

 

 

2014-09-30 1:00 GMT+02:00 Jon <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >:

Hi Jos:

Finally got around to testing your last suggestion from July (traveling the 
past 2 months) : still can't print using USB printer (my biggest problem with 
DP right now--vDos solved the compatibility with win 7).  My goal is to have DP 
output in PDF and then I can do anything with it.

1.   I REM'd out LPT1 printer setting in config.sys as suggested.

2.  I tried to print out a report but no automatic PDF doc appeared.   Instead, 
it printed to the attached parallel port and printer showed PCL codes (without 
the escape code).  I double checked my report to make sure those escape codes 
preceeded my PCL codes in the report, and they're definitely there (esc 27)

3.  I dowloaded the latest July vDOS version and also pcl6.exe was put into the 
vDOS folder.

I thought perhaps DataPerfect's setting to send report to LPT1 somehow over 
rode the automatic PDF generato but I reset DP to make a file instead of print: 
 that didn't help either.  Nothing appears on screen.

Was I supposed to put a pcl6.exe in the autoexec?
Any special command in config?

Thanks for your help!
Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Jos Schaars
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Dosprinter working in Vdos

Hello Jon,

Your DP application is sending PCL data to the printer.
DOSPrinter doesn t understand PCL and is meant for Epson printer emulation.
The one exception is the /RAW switch that lets DOSPrinter select the Windows 
printer and send the data directly to the printer w/o trying to interpret any 
Epson codes.
LPT1 = /SEL'Brother HL-S370DW' /RAW

But vDos should recognize the PCL data coming from your application and nothing 
would have to be set.
The printer output should be converted to PDF and opened in your PDF reader.
You didn t mention vDos complaining it couldn t start the PCL6.exe program:
- Check if you have the latest version (2014.07.18) of vDos.
- Look for any lines in config.txt with LPT1= ., remove them or comment them 
out with REM.
- Read the instructions in the last four lines of config.txt.

Jos




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