Best way to run a page-limited PCLXForm on a server

Posted on | December 1, 2009 | No Comments

The best way to run PCLXForm on a server being using by multiple workstations.  Is to have them all send there files to a folder that HotDir is watching.  When HotDir sees a new file (or, files), it will check to see of PCLXForm is already running.  If it is, HotDir waits.  If not, then HotDir launches PCLXForm and re-directs the PCL as input. 

Or, you can use the ExitReportDir=, ExitReportFilename= .tpt functions to tell you when PCLXForm finished.  You can first check to see if that end-of-job file is present and then delete it and run PCLXForm.   If another job needs to run, then if the end-of-job file is not there it should retry until it sees it.

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