RE: Re Text File to PDF
Tony, Thanks for the idea. In my project, I already have the PCL'ized reports done. I've used pcl2pdf before and it creates a nice (small) PDF file ready for viewing or emailing. regarding my earlier comments re active fax ... I checked with the www.actfax.com folks last night and they said they would have a leaner pcl to pdf 'text' version later this year. -Original Message- From: Tony Gravagno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:53 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Re Text File to PDF Troy Buss wrote Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html ) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Hey Troy, long time bud. Hope all is well. [snip] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Re Text File to PDF
I've used active fax from www.actfax.com with good results for faxing. However, while investigating usage as a large report PDF emailer, it generates huge PDF files since the content is converted to a graphic. 7 pages is 714kb. Whereas using PCL2PDF the file is 14KB. Does VSI-FAX or other pdf-enabled email/fax solutions handle the PDF conversion as text instead? Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html ) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Thanks! -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Re Text File to PDF
Troy Buss wrote Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html ) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Hey Troy, long time bud. Hope all is well. I have code here that I haven't had time to fully productize it yet. Very simply you populate a variable with substitution strings, and pass it to a routine that generates an HTML page, PDF, or PostScript. It's all clean BASIC code, there's no funky printer/device-specific escape sequences (PCL or PS) and you can change the report layout independently from the app code. Using a similar set vars and call a subroutine interface, you can also e-mail the resulting files - no SendMail, Outlook, or other mail client or server code required. All of this will work over Windows or Linux (Blat is great but it doesn't work over Linux). I'll be porting this to U2 within the next couple weeks. So far there is one happy client that's been using it over D3 for several months. I think they'll provide a good reference if asked. Regards, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
