off topic question

[someguy]

Hi,

I apologize in advance as I know this isn't the newsgroup for this
type of question but this group has helped me out on many other issues so
i'd figure i'd give it a shot. I need to find some type of utility (for
windows 200, for either crystal reports or adobe) that takes a 100+ (or any
number) print job and splits that into individual print jobs of 4 pages
each - basically, print 4 pages, start another job and print another 4
pages ect. If anyone know of a utility out there that can do that please
let me know. Many Thanks.

TIA

 

[Guest]

Don't know of any such utility, but the enterprise version of Crystal Reports
includes their Report Designer Component with the object library to build,
run, and manipulate reports; I am sure you could easily write your own
Crystal utility with that tool - if you are willing to spend the $$$.

You could also explore the possibility of intercepting the print jobs via
the Windows API for a more general purpose utility - don't know the specifics
of the calls needed for print jobs but I am sure you could find out easily -
there is lots of good documentation for the Win API on the web, including the
MSDN Library.

 

[Inderjit Rai]

thanks for the hints....i will look into the ms library.