Report to TIF - suggest Win98 driver

[MamaCIG]

Greetings. I am using VFP6. I have an application that creates TIF files for subsequent viewing via ShellExecute of default viewer. This works great in XP with the default FAX driver set as current printer:

SET PRINTER TO NAME (myFaxPrinter)
REPORT FORM someReport TO FILE tifname.TIF

However, I have yet to make it work in Win98. Have tried FaxTalk Fax and Mightyfax as drivers. Can't use ZAN - it is only for Win2000 and up.

Any suggestions of a driver that might work would be much appreciated.

 

[MamaCIG]

Greetings again. Since my initial post, I have tried more drivers without success. In the event anyone else attempts this with Win 98, I wanted to let you know what drivers haven't worked with
REPORT FORM myreport TO FILE tifname.TIF
in Win 98:

MS Fax from Win98 CD
Fax Wizard 2000
Peernet
Fine Print (this one sort of works, but brings up dialog and requires too much manual intervention).

Hopefully someday this will save someone else out there some time. Also still looking for that special driver.....

 

[DSummZZZ]

Is TIF the only option?
You may be able to find something that will convert another format to a TIF file on the fly, and start by printing to that format.
Not sure though, I've never had to use TIF.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Mike Gagnon]

An option might be XFRX

http://www.eqeus.com

which has an option FRX->TIFF

Mike Gagnon

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