Dec 24

Written by: Soul Solutions
Monday, 24 December 2007 

BronwenWeeGo.jpgWhile helping out on a project, I ran a few unit tests.  When it ran, my collegue remarked, "There's the letter coming out of the printer now". I was a bit surprised and asked if there was a config setting to prevent it from printing everytime i ran the tests.  Unfortunaly no was the answer.

So in an effort to not kill as many trees I downloaded CUTEPDF which is a program that allows you to use it as a printer but saves the output to a pdf file.  I changed all the printer references in the tests to point to the newly installed "printer" and whoolaa...no more trees being kill, and tests still run fine.

There's a few other programs out there that are similar, I've used CutePDF a few times now when i'm doing development and process testing.  I find it great when your building reports/generating files that need to be printed but you don't actually want to waste paper until you think you have it "just right".

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Re: Using CutePDF to save some trees

I like CutePDF. I have been using it for awhile now and find it very convenient.

By Rhonda Tipton on   Thursday, 3 January 2008

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