If you are on a unix Avante system, then get the utility called "Ted". It is an RTF X-window edittor, but it has the ability to convert RTF to Postscript at command line. Then you can use a utility called "ghostscript" to convert Postscript to PCL.
-- Rod Hills -----Original Message----- From: Brian Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Printing an RTF file from Universe Not all of our end users use Accuterm so this is not an option. Also, not all of the end users are PC users - some use dumb terminals. I know that if I imbed HP PCL code into the print job for different fonts etc that these will print fine. However, for this particular job, a couple of logos are part of the document as well and we would like to be able to print them. > After you write the document, launch an Accuterm script that then launches > Word and tells Word to print the document. > I do this using Accuterm to view/edit/print an rtf formatted document from a > PC, but instead of Word I associate Wordpad with .rtf extensions, so that it > still works if Word is not installed on the client PC. > > Here is the code that uses Accuterm to send an item from a universe file > (DOCUMENTS) to c:\DOC.rtf, then starts wordpad, then sends the result back. > IIRC Albert Kallal posted some vb script to comp.databases.pick to > automatically print using word- try googling cdp for "printing word > documents." There are also some vb scripts to do this sort of thing on the > Accusoft website (asent.com). WISL while you work! Voice:519-884-2604 FAX: 519-884-0317 Mail: Waterloo Information Systems Limited 33 Dupont Street East Waterloo ON N2J 2G8 ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
