Does anyone know if by using Asher's classes, printing to pdf can be used as a workaround to the intermittent and random Win32 print crashes reported by many RB users?
Regards Paul On 4/19/06, Brad Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > Asher's PDF Classes are simple enough that our upcoming RealeWriter > 3.0 provides output tuned to US Letter and A4 print and PDF and we > use the same core code to draw each (for each of the many printed > report formats we support). We actually just send picture to the > printer and PDF classes to be blitted, having rendered them in the > app. However, the PDF Classes support all the text things you'd want > like embedded fonts, etc. > > I think our Mac OS X users could have managed to save PDFs through > the print dialog. And we could have recommended that our Windows > users get something like DeskPDF. However, having the capability > built into the app actually opened up another possibility for us, and > that was automated sharing of the PDFs on our community website. It's > pretty freakin awesome and I can't wait for the it to go public beta > in the next couple weeks. > > If I were in charge of an IDE company like RS, I would snatch Asher > up ASAP and get him developing these kinds of frameworks. He's a > talented kid and he's got a good sense of making useful APIs. > > -Brad > -- > Brad Hutchings > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
