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Printing using printer codes to GDI printers?
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09/04/2002 15:55:52
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00642572
Message ID:
00642876
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Thanks Ed,
I've downloaded ghostscript and I'm going to give that a shot to see how feasible it is as a resolution to my problem. I may try the PDF route too. You always come through!
Thanks again!
Tracy

>>Ok, I've had to rule out html for the reasons you already stated. While it works, my reports are too advanced for that. Do you know of any examples using postscript for this from within VFP? I checked out your link, but I cannot find a working example from within VFP of taking a report sent to a file and printing it out to a GDI printer. I need the condensed codes etc somehow to take effect. While I could specify condensed printing (somewhat) in html, I could not control the vertical line spacing and the pages rendered different everytime.
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>Download GhostScript, a GNU PostScript viewer/print program, which takes a PostScript document and displays or prints it on a Windows Printer - there are many GNU distribution sites; www.cdrom.com is one, as are uwashington and most FSF sites. You'll simply install a PostScript printer driver and create EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) output, which is then routed to the Windows GDI by GhostScript.
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>You could do much the same thing by creating PDF output and sending the PDF to the GDI using Adobe Acrobat; you'd need a commercial PDF creator of some sort to serve as printer driver using PDF output. PDF is built off a PostScript document, FWIW...
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