Glen >Doesn't using PrintWizard imply the use of a Windows server somewhere?
That's the way of the world. If you want a quick-and-dirty stick-some-text-into-a-doc type of PDF you can get away with cross platform solutions, but for a 'real' PDF solution - one with good font handling, images, graphics, not to mention supporting the encryption algorithms, digital signatures and the like - the cost of developing an attractive commercial solution on a Linux platform is just prohibitive compared to the pay back. That's why mvPDF - and I believe PrintWizard - are both Windows based (and both Delphi driven :) ), though from what I understand of PrintWizard the architectures are very different. mvPDF for instance runs as a realtime document creation service, so it can feed back details of print metrics to the calling program as the document is being created if required. I wrote it originally for use creating specifications for a custom manufacturing system, where every document layout was potentially different and it needed a lot of control over the document whilst is was being built up - even for just simple tasks like working out whether something would fit on the page before committing it becomes an issue when using proportional fonts and markups! Of course since mvPDF runs as a service, the database itself can be on any platform, and since then I added lots of easy-use functions (spooler capture, document merging, page designer for example) - but the core font and graphics handling and the need to feed back that information remains a Windows-specific function. Yes, you can do these things on Linux but the different levels of support across the various programming languages makes the Windows route so much more attractive. Brian ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
