>>Hi
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>>We are capturing signatures on handhelds carried by delivery drivers - we are currently exploring exporting these as a text file and converting to bmp in the receiving system - anyone have any experience of conversion to image files in this way?
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>Download Print2Pdf (look here or on the wiki) and then change the parameters for the ghostscript call from "use pdf driver" to "use png driver" (or jpg) - just save yourself some space and don't go bmp, that's using too much diskspace even by today's standards.
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>Alternately, there are print drivers which print to fax or tiff - some come with Office, you may use those.
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>In an app to distribute worldwide I may think twice about what's installed on users' machines, but if these machines are under your control, then you may make sure necessary pieces are installed. The first solution is a freebie.
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>Now that I've seen the textfile, it should be a breeze to convert that into a short and sweet PostScript text that you could store, and convert into whatever you want via GhostScript - bitmap image, vector graphics, PDF.

Thanks a lot for your reply - I'll give it a go

I need also to be able to do this conversion from within VFP - is that possible?

Colin