RE: Re Text File to PDF
Tony, Thanks for the idea. In my project, I already have the PCL'ized reports done. I've used pcl2pdf before and it creates a nice (small) PDF file ready for viewing or emailing. regarding my earlier comments re active fax ... I checked with the www.actfax.com folks last night and they said they would have a leaner pcl to pdf 'text' version later this year. -Original Message- From: Tony Gravagno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:53 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: Re Text File to PDF Troy Buss wrote >Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html >) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Hey Troy, long time bud. Hope all is well. [snip] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Re Text File to PDF
Troy Buss wrote >Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html >) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Hey Troy, long time bud. Hope all is well. I have code here that I haven't had time to fully productize it yet. Very simply you populate a variable with substitution strings, and pass it to a routine that generates an HTML page, PDF, or PostScript. It's all clean BASIC code, there's no funky printer/device-specific escape sequences (PCL or PS) and you can change the report layout independently from the app code. Using a similar "set vars and call a subroutine" interface, you can also e-mail the resulting files - no SendMail, Outlook, or other mail client or server code required. All of this will work over Windows or Linux (Blat is great but it doesn't work over Linux). I'll be porting this to U2 within the next couple weeks. So far there is one happy client that's been using it over D3 for several months. I think they'll provide a good reference if asked. Regards, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Re Text File to PDF
Troy, I don't think you can escape a conversion to image data for a faxed solution. For emailing it will depend on your PDF generator, but I can't imagine why a PDF generator would turn text into images as a first preference (certainly our product doesn't). Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
RE: Re Text File to PDF
I've used active fax from www.actfax.com with good results for faxing. However, while investigating usage as a large report PDF emailer, it generates huge PDF files since the content is converted to a graphic. 7 pages is 714kb. Whereas using PCL2PDF the file is 14KB. Does VSI-FAX or other pdf-enabled email/fax solutions handle the PDF conversion as text instead? Otherwise its back to pcl2pdf ( www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdf.html ) and blat for this other project I'm working on. Thanks! -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Re Text File to PDF
We use VSI-FAX from Esker software. When you submit a job to the fax server for forwarding to an email address, it converts the file to pdf on the fly. There's no pre-processing necessary. The default is to convert it to a .tif file, but there's a switch in the .ini file to change that default to .pdf conversions, which we prefer. Karl Thanks Clif. Your service has been remarkable. As a hoster of email lists, I applaud you. I know what you've been doing... KLP On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 11:04, Schalk van Zyl wrote: > Trevor, > > We did that (and more - like 'printing' to email) with txt2pdf from > SANFACE (www.sanface.com) > Cheers. > > Schalk > > -Original Message- > From: Trevor Ockenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 March 2004 05:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Text file to PDF > > And now for something completely different! > > Any help or suggestions regarding converting out text reports in the > &HOLD& file to PDF > files for subsequent e-mailing. > > Cheers > > Trevor Ockenden > Open Systems Professionals > M: +61 414 731 634 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG 6.0. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.642 / Virus Database: 410 - Release Date: 24/03/2004 -- Karl L. Pearson Director of IT, ATS Industrial Supply Direct: 801-978-4429 Toll-free: 888-972-3182 x29 Fax: 801-972-3888 http://www.atsindustrial.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
