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Specify an alternate destination for the spooled printer formatted data.
Function to specify an alternate destination for the spooled printer formatted data.
A URL indicating an alternate destination for the spooled printer formatted data. Some print services will not support the notion of a destination other than the printer device and so will not support this attribute. A common use for this attribute will be applications which want to redirect output to a local disk file: e.g. "file:out.prn". A more platform independent way is to set the fgl_report_setPrinterName to "stdout" so that postscript is written to stdout or to specify the fgl_report_setPrinterwriteToFile attribute which causes postscript to be written to the specified file. Another alternative may be the use of the fgl_report_selectDevice to generate a PDF file .
By default, it is not set. Setting this option reduces the set of usable printers to those matching it.
For a generic example of Genero code using a reporting function, see Using report output functions. This example may not use the specific function discussed in this topic, however it provides details on where you would place this (and other) report output functions.