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Visual Printer +

Introduction
Professional Programming Services is proud to introduce the latest release of our much acclaimed (JBC) "Visual Printer +" report capture & browsing utility (See Screen Shots).

This utility significantly enhances your report output options, distribution management and data warehousing capability within a powerful, user friendly environment without changing a single line of your existing source code.

System Requirements
BBx or Thoroughbred Basic Environment.
Unix / Linux (all flavors including SCO, HP-UX and many more).

How It Works
Visual Printer + installs as any other printer in your IPLINPUT or CONFIG.BBX (see examples). Once installed all output sent to "Visual Printer +" is captured and stored in a subdirectory of your choice. Once stored these files may be viewed, manipulated or electronically distributed via the Visual Printer + Browser.

Key Features

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100% Server Based - All members of your organization will  have access to Visual Printer + functionality without additional cost or desktop configuration.

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Email or Fax a copy or portion of any report to anyone.

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Print or electronically distribute multiple copies of any report to anyone.

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Print or electronically distribute a subsection of any report to anyone.

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Fully Compatible with Monarch® Report Mining Tool by Datawatch Corp.

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Compressed - 132 Column terminal support: Full support for shifting into and out of 132 column mode on terminals that support this feature.

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Right & left scrolling - Allows reports greater then 80 columns to be viewed on a 80 column terminal. Shifts by user-defined increments.

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Vertical scrolling - by Screen, Half-Screen, or Page - by direct reference (go to page #) or relative reference (skip +/- # pages form current page) is supported.

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Freeze Header and/or Columns - Allows 1st # lines or 1st # columns of each page to be frozen. - Scrolling can then occur without loss of page headings or line descriptors. 

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Limit an individuals report browsing access to "User" or "Group" or "All".

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Generate a hard copy by selecting an Idol, Thoroughbred Basic or any UNIX device via pipe or redirection.

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Reports sent to "Visual Printer +" are automatically archived for later retrieval.

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Print to direct devices in background (emulate Spooling)

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Statistical History - Maintains a full record (date, #copies, device, etc.) of last access print.

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Scheduling & un-scheduling of Printing / Faxing on a future date and time.

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Word searching: including multiple word searches and 'repeat'.

We look forward to discussing Visual Printer + with you in further detail, as well as any other issues specific to your business needs.
For more information please feel free to contact us

 

Last modified: May 13, 2007

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