Subject: | Re: No more printer name too long issues!
| Date: | Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:23:30 -0500
| From: | Mark Bannister <markRemove@THISinjection-moldings.com>
| Newsgroups: | pnews.paradox-discussions
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I've been using a virtual network printer (CUPS printer server on
network) lately that has helped with this is well. Also 2-3 times
faster than the local PDF printer we were using.
It dumps the file into the user's home directory on the network.
I did have to make the printer name quite short and luckily the server
name was fairly short because the you have to use a path to the printer:
http://SERVERNAME:631/printers/PDF1
I imagine there is a way to change the path name in CUPS, but I didn't
need to.
On 6/15/2018 5:26 AM, Kevin Baker wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just wanted to share my new way of producing reports in Paradox (I use
> Paradox 11).
>
> I found this software called Doro PDF Printer
> (http://www.the-sz.com/products/doro/) which is pretty awesome. It uses
> an ini file to control most of the output (file name and location were
> most important to me).
> As you know the sendkey function is broken in paradox, so I created my
> own using AutoHotKeys (SendK.exe). This is used to change the printer
> to the Doro Printer. Keep in mind, this isn't changing the default
> printer in windows, just the printer I'm printing to in Paradox.
>
> On my print button, I run the SendK to change the current printer, then
> create the ini file to set the file name and location (and a few other
> items) for Doro, then I print the report (and the pdf is created),
> there's an option in the ini file to automatically open the pdf file
> after it's created, but I just check for the file then open a custom PDF
> viewer. Since I open the PDF Viewer I can wait until the user closes it
> to do other things. For example, on the PDF View form, I have a button
> that reads, Send Email, which simply writes a file called email.txt and
> closes the viewer. Once it's closed in paradox I check for email.txt and
> if found, then I run code to allow them to email the pdf file. I have a
> few other buttons on the viewer as well, but if the user just closes the
> viewer,then I delete the pdf file.
>
> I've been running this for about a month on my RDS Server (375 users)
> and it's been smooth. The user's printer name being too long is no
> longer a problem. There is a slight delay from the time the user clicks
> Print to the pdf being displayed, but in my opinion well worth it.
>
> I'll share anything I've done with anyone who may find this useful.
>
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