Why would somebody use this instead of creating a PDF? Was this M$'s effort to replace Adobe's PDF file? Always wondered that.
I have used it for automated printing through .net
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:28 AM, <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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Why would somebody use this instead of creating a PDF? Was this M$'s effort to replace Adobe's PDF file? Always wondered that.
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Yes it was easier. I needed the application to have no user interface. I had a lot of problems getting a seamless print to happen using PDF without looking to pay for licenses which I didn't want to do at the time.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:41 AM, <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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On 2017-11-07 13:29, Paul Hemans wrote:
I have used it for automated printing through .net
Was it easier to use/implement?
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On 2017-11-07 13:44, Paul Hemans wrote:
Yes it was easier. I needed the application to have no user interface. I had a lot of problems getting a seamless print to happen using PDF without looking to pay for licenses which I didn't want to do at the time.
That's interesting. I'm working with a fellow who's using PDFCreator on the web server to serve up PDFs generated out of a WestWind WebConnect app. I wonder if XPS could preview in a web page the same as a PDF could? I recall years ago systems didn't seem to know what to do or how to handle XPS files. That's why my interest dropped at that time.
In my experience, FoxyPreviewer handles PDF docs seamlessly - you don't need a UI.
Laurie
On 7 November 2017 at 19:33, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2017-11-07 13:44, Paul Hemans wrote:
Yes it was easier. I needed the application to have no user interface. I had a lot of problems getting a seamless print to happen using PDF without looking to pay for licenses which I didn't want to do at the time.
That's interesting. I'm working with a fellow who's using PDFCreator on the web server to serve up PDFs generated out of a WestWind WebConnect app. I wonder if XPS could preview in a web page the same as a PDF could? I recall years ago systems didn't seem to know what to do or how to handle XPS files. That's why my interest dropped at that time.
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XPS is Microsoft's proprietary answer to PDFs. You can extrapolate from there. If you're all Windows all the time, the fact that it's built into the OS could offer the advantages mentioned by Paul. Good luck using those docs outside the context of Windows.
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On 2017-11-07 13:44, Paul Hemans wrote:
Yes it was easier. I needed the application to have no user interface. I had a lot of problems getting a seamless print to happen using PDF without looking to pay for licenses which I didn't want to do at the time.
That's interesting. I'm working with a fellow who's using PDFCreator on the web server to serve up PDFs generated out of a WestWind WebConnect app. I wonder if XPS could preview in a web page the same as a PDF could? I recall years ago systems didn't seem to know what to do or how to handle XPS files. That's why my interest dropped at that time.
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