TFORMer Runtime: Command Line Reporting Software

Label Printing from Command Line

The command line reporting software, TFPrint, is the ideal solution if you like to embed label printing and reporting in batch jobs or shell scripts. Only 3 input parameters are necessary to generate the desired output:

The TFPrint application is very easy: All print job parameters are given as command line arguments (e.g. the form name). You can start TFPrint by means of DOS commands, or simply by invoking it within your application (so called spawning or ShellExecute in ORACLE^®, Perl, PHP, JAVA...).

1. Provide payload (file or database)
2. Adjust data source, form and output medium using parameters in TFprint
3. Print directly or export as PDF/HTML/Graphic

Reporting Software for All Plattforms

TFPrint is part of TFORMer Runtime and therefore available for all major operating systems (like Windows, Linux^® and UNIX^®).

TFPrint Sample Calls

Some examples on how you can call TFPrint from command line or per batch job are listed below:

• We want to print the VDA 4902 Label from the available local printer (-F VDA4902.tff -O "VDA_Labelprinter" -OT WIN32).
• The data for the VDA accompanying document is imported from the CSV file VDA4902.csv (-D VDA4902.csv -DT TEXT).
• The CSV file uses the comma as separator between data fields (-DO SC,) and incloses the values in double quotes (QC").

TFPrint.exe 
        -F VDA4902.tff 
        -D VDA4902.csv -DT TEXT -DO SC, QC"
        -O "VDA_Labelprinter" -OT WIN32

This sample shows the output of the same VDA4902 transport label as PDF file (-O VDA4902.pdf -OT PDF):

TFPrint.exe 
        -F VDA4902.tff 
        -D VDA4902.csv -DT TEXT -DO SC, QC"
        -O VDA4902.pdf -OT PDF