I have a great program that was written for my company in dbase 5 for dos.
It will only print to my laser printer.  I would like to be able to print my
reports to a PDF file so that they could be emailed.  I can't seem to find
anyone who can help me with this.  I am hoping some one can point me in the
right direction.

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.


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Diane G. Collier
V.P. Operations
Human Systems Development
dcollier@humansystemsdev.com
937.885.2208
www.humansystemsdev.com

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In article <eotc83R#FHA.1988@news-server>, dcollier@humansystemsdev.com
says...
> I have a great program that was written for my company in dbase 5 for dos.
> It will only print to my laser printer.  I would like to be able to print 
my
> reports to a PDF file so that they could be emailed.  I can't seem to find
> anyone who can help me with this.  I am hoping some one can point me in th
e
> right direction.
>
> Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry, but the DOS version will only print to physical printers or to a
file (a plain text file, not a pdf)...

However, the Windows versions are quite happy to print to a pdf format.
It may be time to upgrade.

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Marilyn Price
M. P. Data

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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:53:00 +0200, Diane Collier
<dcollier@humansystemsdev.com> wrote:

> I have a great program that was written for my company in dbase 5 for
> dos.
> It will only print to my laser printer.  I would like to be able to
> print my
> reports to a PDF file so that they could be emailed.  I can't seem to
> find
> anyone who can help me with this.  I am hoping some one can point me in
> the
> right direction.

If you are running the program on a computer that has MS-DOS as the only
operating system then the short answer is no-can-do.

If, however, you are running it in a DOS window on a Windows machine then
there may be hope.  Have a look at http://www.dos2usb.com/idx.htm and
http://www.printfil.com/adveng.htm  The second option is more expensive
(79euro or about US$103 compared to under US$20) but it has a free 30day
trial option.

Mervyn.

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Take a look to this nice program:

http://www.geocities.com/dosprint/

Dosprinter.exe /PDF filename.

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:58:03 +0200, maamar
<maamar.217tx0@mail.webservertalk.com> wrote:

>
> Take a look to this nice program:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/dosprint/
>
> Dosprinter.exe /PDF filename.

It looks good and the price is between the two I posted.  There are no
doubt others out there if one takes the trouble to search.

Mervyn

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