Hi Robert, In the latest version of DPSpool (6.3.0), the only thing I changed about graphic printing was to fix the bug that prevented printing additional graphics after one of the non-bitmap types were printed. So it's hard to see how if you had a report that was generating a PDF correctly with an earlier version of DPSpool it would suddenly stop working properly with the 6.3.0 version.
I just tested with a report that prints a graphic of a bank deposit slip (in .bmp format) as well as a number of other small bmp files (digits turned sideways) and all of the lines of regular text printed over it to fill in the deposit entries. We use this report every day when making our bank deposits. Sending it to my PDF printer driver using DPSpool 6.3.0 produced exactly what I was expecting. I get the both the graphics and text in my PDF exactly the same as if i had printed it to an actual printer. So, some questions: 1) If you output the same print job through DPSpool 6.3.0 to a regular printer, do you get both graphics and text? 2) What PDF printer driver are you using? (I'm using the free Bullzip PDF Printer<http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php> which I highly recommend.) Have you tried your report with a different PDF printer driver? 3) What's the format of the graphics you're trying to print (bmp, jpg, gif, wmf, etc.) and are you trying to print the text over top of the graphics? 4) Would you like to email me a copy of the DPSpool print job file along with the graphic image file(s) so I can see exactly what you're working with? If so, you can send them to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Tim Rude On 10/27/2017 3:43 PM, Robert Kendall wrote: Hi Tim, There seems to be a problem when the new DPSpool prints to a PDF converter. The graphic image comes through but not the text data. Robert Sent from my iPhone On Oct 26, 2017, at 12:04 PM, Tim Rude <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Robert, There's nothing in DPSpool that should be stripping any normal text out. Have you looked at the contents of the Print Job file to see if the text is actually in there before DPSpool processes it? I don't know what ActFax expects, or the format of the codes it's looking for. But if it's just looking for normal text consisting of (@F101 Sender Name@), you don't need to send it as a Printer Control Code. DPSpool should pass that text along to the printer just like any other text. Tim Rude On 10/26/2017 9:51 AM, Robert Kendall wrote: Hi Tim, I send faxes from DPSpool to ActFax. The recipient / sender information is sent to ActFax bracketed by codes (@F101 Sender Name@). It appears that these codes are not being sent with the new DPSpool version. Should I enter the codes as Printer Controls? (@F101)? Robert Kendall Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2017, at 5:57 PM, Tim Rude <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: OK, there was a little bug that had cropped up in the last version. When a graphic file other than BMP, GIF, JPG, or RLE was printed (such as your WMF file), it triggered an internal flag signaling that it wasn't the kind of file that could have text printed over it. However, that flag didn't get cleared after printing the graphic, which had the unintended result that any further graphics in the print job got ignored. A quick tweak and that bug is no more. While I was tweaking the code, I also fixed an issue where DPSpool's pop-up menu in the system tray wouldn't go away unless you clicked on one of the items on the menu. Now it behaves as it should, by going away if you click anywhere else outside of the menu. That one's bugged me for years but I never bothered to fix it. Lazy I guess. One further tweak was the ability to specify =0 in the DPSpool.ini file for printer default settings for Orientation, PrintQuality, and Duplex. Setting these items to zero (0) now tells DPSpool to leave those settings unchanged, using the driver defaults instead of forcing its own settings. So whereas before you had to specify (for example) either Orientation=P or Orientation=L and DPSpool would enforce that orientation setting, you can now specify (in the DPSpool.ini file) Orientation=0 and DPSpool will not try to force any particular orientation and will instead just leave it set at whatever the printer driver is configured for. In fact, now if you run DPSpool without a DPSpool.ini file and let it create a new DPSpool.ini file, it will by default set Orientation=0, PrintQuality=0, and Duplex=0 in each of the 9 printer sections. The version number is now DPSpool 6.3.0. Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1KCdv_lD33ZQXBPZFBtWFJmZnM Tim Rude On 10/23/2017 2:49 PM, Robert Kendall wrote: Hi Tim, .bmp or .jpg. Maybe a wmf. Robert Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Tim Rude <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Robert, What is the type of each of the graphics are you trying to print? (i.e. bmp, jpg, gif, wmf, emf, ico, etc.) Tim Rude On 10/23/2017 2:08 PM, Robert Kendall wrote: Hi Tim, I am having an issue with the new DPSpool. It seems like only one graphic image will print per page. If there is a graphic letterhead my graphic signature will not print. If there is no graphic letterhead the signature prints fine. This was not a problem with the previous version of DPSpool. The good news is my new report to add text fields on top of a 6 page government form (.jpg) works great. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Tim Rude <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Robert, Yes. Just make sure you're using the latest version of DPSpool from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1KCdv_lD33ZZXNldUtaRU92M1k/view?usp=sharing Also make sure your image is in bmp, rle, gif, or jpg format. I do something similar with a bank deposit slip. I include a scanned graphic of the deposit slip and then use cursor positioning to populate it with text. Took some fiddling to get everything where it needed to be but once that was done it really works well. Tim Rude On 10/13/2017 11:34 AM, Robert Kendall wrote: Can I include a graphic image (of a government form) in a report and use cursor positioning to place text on top of the image? 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