Enabling print support
As you develop a HATS project, you can establish a print session for the associated host application. When the HATS application is running in a production environment, a user of the application can print data or display data that is formatted for printing. Print support settings only apply to the default HATS connection.
When interacting directly with a host application, a user activates
a physical printer to print data from the application. When interacting
with a HATS application, the user does not activate a physical printer.
Rather, a print file is generated, which can
be displayed by the user . The print file
can also be printed.
Note:
If the print
file is an Adobe® PDF file
and a PDF viewer (Adobe® Acrobat
Reader) is not installed, the user will be prompted to save the file
to disk.
This chapter describes the process for enabling print support in your HATS project and for using print support in the HATS Toolkit environment and in the runtime environment for deployed applications.