Consider IBM's wIntegrate. --Bill
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Tod Sigafoos Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:09 PM To: Anthony Dzikiewicz Cc: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re[2]: [U2] Printing PDF from uv Anthony, Thanks for that .. i guess a more specific question is .. from universe, running on windows, how can i 'execute' a windows process. is there an command/API for universe to this? thanks Monday, April 25, 2005, 12:50:18 PM, you wrote: AD> In Windows, the only way I know of printing pdf documents is using the AD> '/p' command line option. Actually, if you wanted to print a document AD> 123.pdf you might use; AD> AcroRd32 /p /t 123.pdf or if you use acrobat AD> Acrobat /p /t 123.pdf AD> This will leave the acrobat opened and seems 'messy' to me. It would AD> eat up memory real quick. On my PC it opens an occurrence for every AD> print you execute. It also uses the default printer ('/t' - suppress AD> asking). Not a real solution in my opinion. AD> In Linux we are doing something similar. What I do is to convert the AD> PDF to Postscript via the command AD> acroread -toPostScript 123.pdf /tmp/123.ps AD> lp -dmy_postscript_laser /tmp/123.ps AD> rm -rf /tmp/123.ps AD> rm -rf 123.pdf AD> The only thing here is that you need a Postscript enabled printer. We AD> are going to be evaluating a Xerox 4350 laser printer that actually is AD> said to print PDF files natively (probably just converts to postscript AD> by itself). So, if you can get a PDF cabable printer it makes things AD> even easier. In Windows you would just do a "print d:/my_pdf_laser AD> 123.pdf" and off it goes. AD> One other thing you should consider is how to do reprints easily. One AD> thing about printers is that they jam, run out of paper etc.. AD> Anthony AD> -----Original Message----- AD> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Tod AD> Sigafoos AD> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 1:52 PM AD> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org AD> Subject: [U2] Printing PDF from uv AD> I must say this has been a very interesting project .. learned lots of AD> great stuff (some from this group) and had to come up with many work AD> arounds .. i can feel the brain cells firing. AD> Now .. how to print a PDF to a specific printer .. AD> is there a way to do this from universe? 10.0.1 on windows AD> Primarily the client has a shipping package running under windows which AD> uses ODBC to update the uniVerse table with shipping info. There is a AD> trigger on this table which we will enhance to generate the PDFs (postal AD> forms etc) and then once generated (by the trigger AD> process) we want UV to 'print' the PDF form to a specific printer. AD> I am looking for ideas, directions etc to get this working .. everything AD> is cool except the printing bits .. AD> Thanks again ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
