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Printer emulation by Snapshot driver?

asked on July 30, 2014

We have an old legacy application that was written in FoxPro many years ago (company long out of business).  When running reports from this application, it uses your default printer and does not allow selection of a printer.  The reports appear to sense the default printer's capabilities and adjust report formatting based on the printer driver.  In a particular report, it normally prints in two columns per page when choosing an HP PCL5 or PCL6 driver.  We are new Laserfiche customers, and trying to use Snapshot printing from this legacy application.  When running the same report to the Snapshot printer driver, what would normally come out as one page utilizing two columns is coming out as two pages, each with one column.

 

Is there some way to setup the Snapshot driver so that the legacy application thinks it is dealing with a PCL5 or PCL6 printer?

 

Unfortunately this legacy report outputs a single print job per student rather than all students in a single report, so printing 1000 student transcripts generates 1000 individual print jobs rather than one print job with 1000+ pages, so outputting to the Acrobat Printer and then pushing into Laserfiche offers significant challenges as well.

 

Thanks in advance!

Jeff Donley

Mukilteo School District, WA

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replied on July 31, 2014

Snapshot cannot emulate a PCL printer and Laserfiche doesn't have any software which can rasterize or otherwise interpret PCL streams. However, a quick Google search reveals some software that can convert PCL streams to standard image file formats.

 

That being said, Snapshot does allow you to append to an existing document and to do so without prompting. Alternatively, you can create 1000 separate documents and then use a script or something to combine the pages. This might be easier than trying to get a third-party program to work.

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