>>I love my DOS printer spooler called "Printq". I use it to review output from my reports. The advantage over the report "preview" is that I can scroll and see exactly how the output will look on the printed page. If anything looks wrong, I delete the Printq file, correct and try again. If the outout looks ok, then I have a permanent non paper record which I can reproduce on paper at any time.
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>>Is there such a spooler for Visual FoxPro? The last time I tried the company that produced Printq, they said they did not have a spooler for Windows. Please help.
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>>Thanks
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>Windows has it's own print spooler.

And it, unfortunately, doesn't have a viewer of the things in queue - but it would be a nice thing to have, wouldn't it?

I'm just wandering how does the print preview work at all? It is depending on the printer driver, so it's probably intercepting the requests for printing and rasterizing them for display, using some of the printer driver's routines. I doubt it uses the ready bitmap that a driver would produce (which it actually wouldn't do each time for each printer, and then even if it did, the internals of such a bitmap would confuse anybody). Still... just wandering.

Maybe the best thing we could do would be to print into a PostScript file and use an interpreter to view it (or do the same thing with Adobe Acrobat, HTML or RTF). Is it coincidence that out of four solutions for the "preview vs print-to-file and view-and/or-print-it-later" problem, all four need extra software (beyond VS+Windows)?