Archive for January, 2005
So far so good
PrintFu has now been officially online for 4 days, and we have had about 500 unique users visiting! It seems the web service is very popular! By the way if anyone is interested, the entire PrintFu system and subsequent “manucast - pdf printing engine” was completely developed on a Apple PowerBook G4!
US Printing Only
I had a man in Europe call me today asking if I will ship to the UK…Right now from a business / cost standpoint PrintFu only works in theUS. But I decided to see what it would cost to send something to himin the UK using UPS. $63!!!However, If we could get a printer in [...]
xhtml2pdf
Ok, so here is the beginning of my xhtml2pdf XSL that is used in printable manual generation web service (http://www.printfu.org/?mcAction=developer.ws) Tis pretty long, but you should get the idea.The possibilities of this are completely endless, I have built a couple prototypes using this to generate killer looking PDFs like: a Guitar Tab to Guitar Tab [...]
The PrintFu Conundrum
So when I started out building PrintFu, I figured it would be pretty easy. Just take someone’s PDF, some shipping information, send them to paypal to bill them, tell the Printer the PDF is ready to be printed, and boom. That’s it.. Right? WRONG.I will be covering in detail the steps it took to build [...]
Welcome to the FuBlog
Wonderful! PrintFu now has a blog. Here we will cover various aspects of the business and the technology that runs the business. The main site can be found at http://www.printfu.org/
