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Arial Software To Publish Virtual Print Engine (VPE) From IDEAL.


PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1996--

Gives Windows Developers Instant Printing And Previewing

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Arial Software today announced they have reached an agreement with IDEAL software to publish Virtual Print Engine (VPE VPE Verpackungseinheit (German)
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) for Windows, to be available in November of this year.

VPE is a DLL (1) See data link layer.

(2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs.
 that provides developers with 65 calls and functions that provide powerful, precise control over the output results from the Windows printing system The host-based printing function in Windows. The Windows Printing System is used to generate output for low-cost inkjet and laser printers that do not have built-in CPUs. See host-based printing and Windows Print Manager. , including a built-in print preview A software function that displays on screen the way a document will print on paper. Print preview eliminates wasting paper as corrections are made before the document is printed. In addition, network printers are not always close by and easily accessible.  feature that even supports end-user preview zooming! This transforms the hundreds of hours of painstaking print-system tweaking tweaking Vox populi Fine-tuning to produce optimal results  into a much smaller job for the developer -- requiring hours instead of days and granting precision control to 1/10 mm.

Mike Adams Mike Adams may refer to:
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  • Mike Adams (baseball pitcher) (born 1978), Major League Baseball pitcher
, president of Arial Software, said, "Virtual Print Engine is a dream-come-true for developers whose software needs to generate printed output of any kind. This software clearly can shave hundreds of hours of development time off large projects. It's a life-saver for the developer and a budget-saver for the company footing the bill."

The DLLs that ship with VPE are accessible from C, C++, Pascal, Visual Basic, SQL Windows, Delphi, and any other development language that supports DLL calls. Features include:

-- Built-in print previews and print dialog boxes

-- User-controlled zooming in the print preview

-- Support for colors, lines, frames, boxes, barcodes, bitmaps

and text

-- Provides precision 1/10 mm control over drawing coordinates

-- Supports all text-formatting features (left, right, centered,

bold, italics, underlined, etc.)

-- Supports the opening of an unlimited number of virtual

documents

-- Completely printer-independent and resolution-independent;

documents look the same on every printer

and many more...

VPE is available in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions, each costing $398 or $598 for both. It will be available directly from Arial Software, with free evaluation versions available at www.arialsoftware.com.

For more information, contact Arial Software at 503/646-4515 or visit www.arialsoftware.com.

CONTACT: Arial Software

Mike Adams, mike.adams@arialmktg.com

Tel: 503/646-4515 Fax: 503/646-6717
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