[foxboro] Printing to PDF, part2
- From: "Pat Martens" <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:39:02 +0200
Hello list,
Subject: print screen Foxview displays to .pdf file on terminal server (I/A
8.2)
First I briefly explain what I've done so far but I do have some questions
(at the end) !
After some more experimenting I ended up with the Pdf995 software (see
www.pdf995.com <http://www.pdf995.com/> ).
The PdfEdit995 utility offers some nice features, like printing all print
jobs to one pdf file.
I make sure the primary Foxview is full screen on the terminal server and
leave it in the init environment.
From my desktop PC I start a terminal session to the terminal server.
I then start the PdfEdit tool and make settings such that all print jobs are
appended in one pdf document, disable the 'Auto open pdf after printing' and
set image resolution to 600 dpi.
From a nutcracker command window I then execute the script as shown below,
from the directory which holds the mimic fdf files and pass the primary
display manager name as a parameter. (This could be done locally on the
terminal server as well but I would like to do this remote)
The mimics will be shown one by one on the local (primary) terminal server
screen and printed to the pdf file as specified with PdfEdit.
(Anybody using the terminal server locally will be surprised)
After each print command the pdf995 printer-driver shows a 'nag' sponsor
screen for about 20 seconds, this is the reason for the 22 second sleep.
The 2 second sleep is to make sure the display is displayed completely with
dynamic data (display call-up on the terminal server is very fast!)
I end up with a pdf document with all mimics from the directory concerned
(in our case, typically a process unit).
Works very well!
I can now put these .pdf files on our intranet for everyone to view, and it
does not take to much time to update them!
(I guess we will have to get a 'key' for the Pdf995 software to disable the
'nag' screen which would speed up things drastically!)
The preliminary script (need to check for $1 entered yes/no)
#!/bin/sh
echo "Make sure FoxView is in fullview!"
sleep 5
for FILE in `ls *.fdf`
#for FILE in `ls u221_[0][0][0-1]T.fdf`
#for FILE in `ls u309_000.fdf`
do
echo "/usr/local/pref -$1 dmcmd `pwd`/$FILE"
#/usr/local/pref -$DMNAME dmcmd `pwd`/$FILE
/usr/local/pref -$1 dmcmd `pwd`/$FILE
sleep 2
#/usr/local/pref -$DMNAME dmcmd psc
/usr/local/pref -$1 dmcmd psc
sleep 22
done
Questions:
The foxview print screen function seems to print only the Foxview window
(does not necessarily need to be full screen) but if any window is on top of
this, this will also appear in the print-out.
Q: Is there a way to force the Foxview window to the FRONT, preferably to be
included in the above script?
When the print screen is executed, a 'document' name is created which can be
seen from the spooler window and which could also be used to automatically
create one .pdf file for each print-job (so one pdf for each mimic). To
document name format looks something like this: Foxview: 8TS0001:8TS0001
u309_.
The last 5 characters however are (unfortunately) truncated to 5 characters
while the actual full name should be u309_001.fdf . The next graphic would
be u309_002.fdf etc.
Printing all graphics to separate files will all be printed to u309_.pdf
which renders this function useless!
Q: Is there a way to change this behaviour; ideally I would like the
document name to be identical to the .fdf file name, so in this case
u309_001.fdf would be printed to u309_001.pdf ??
Any suggestions welcome!
Kind regards,
Patrick Martens,
Total Raff. Ned. N.V.
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