RE: VFP and Acrobat

Hi Charlie,

Pcl2Pdf from Visual is priced at: $345.00 for dos, Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000

Friday, I was successfull adding pcl soft fonts prepended directly into the

pcl source code - and then created pdf files - this process was directly

supported by VFPs excellent string functions, in as much as I was able to

take large pcl files, have vfp search for a particular hp escape sequence -

and replace it with my soft font escape identifier - very, very fast!

hth

John C. Gunvaldson, CNE, MCP

Database Developer

SQL Server

Visual FoxPro

www.dataquick.com

-----Original Message-----

From: profox@leafe.com [mailto:profox@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Charlie

Coleman

Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 1:48 PM

To: Multiple recipients of ProFox

Subject: RE: VFP and Acrobat

What is the price of that tool (PCL2PDF.EXE)?

Right now, we're using ActivePDF Server. It's quite expensive, and it will

only install on Windows NT, or 2000. To use it, you have to instantiate it

as an object (aka OCX). So, we're not sure if some other machine could make

use of the software from across a LAN. Right now, for our purposes it's no

big deal - we have a VFP app that can act as the print server which is

installed on an NT box (but was there something about instantiating objects

over-the-wire - DCOM?)

In any event, ActivePDF Server looks to be very easy to use, and can be

easily controlled programmatically (as with our 'VFP print server app').

But if there is a cheaper and easier way to get to PDF, I'd love to hear

it. A couple questions are, 1) can the software be controlled via program

code (e.g. setting the output file, tell it to append vice overwrite, and

so on), 2) does it install on Win98, and 3) what are the licensing costs

(and is there some mass-distribution deal).

TIA,

-Charlie

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