The problem with software995 (and others) is the lack of control for paging
and fonts sizing -- I have docs that work perfectly going to PCL, landscape,
line printer font, but none of the 'free' pdf creators will honor the
spacing required, or give you a way to really accurately control it. The
-Original Message-
From: David Wolverton
[snip]
So - if it's formatted for use via PCL, you may or may not get
what you want
- we ended up with 'line creep' on most all of the 'free' pdf
products - or
with the rightmost data cut off on really wide/full page
utilized items!
[snip]
I've always made sure that Ghostscript received only raw text. When I needed
to spiff it up a bit, I used the lead sheets feature of Ghostscript and
inserted some postscript code for things like watermarks header fonts.
I too have found that PCL will often not play nice with other printing
David really hit it on the head here. Because this is really a big FAQ, a
couple months ago I took a lot of time to research Windows and Linux
solutions for creating PDFs, particularly from MV. I was very surprised
and disappointed to find a triangle of mutually exclusive usage factors:
Ease of
450 Lynx formatting failed: open3: exec of lynx --stdin --dump --force_html
--hiddenlinks=ignore --localhost --image_links --nolist --noredir --noreferer
--realm failed at /etc/smrsh/demime line 1519
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MS Word free? Where can I get it???
Just to add another option... have you tried Open Office (which is free)
instead of Word/Excel/Ghost Script/et al, and takes HTML output with CSS
(or Open Office formatted XML amongst other formats) and outputs direct to
PDF? It also runs under Windows,
One of my Microdata RESULTS clients would like to acquire a Job Costing Module
that interfaces with the basic RESULTS data structures. I believe it would be
an account called RESULTS-JCS.
I'm only interested in replies that would accomodate being installed on a
Microdata Spirit 6000 machine,
