Archive for March, 2005
The PrintFu Gmail Challenge
When was the last time you read an email you received 6 years ago? Chances are you haven’t. Why is that? Because we loose CD’s, Floppies, Zips, Hard Drives etc. So whats the solution? A product that can log in to various email systems . ie Yahoo, GMail, HotMail.. download messages and using the [...]
HTML ID CLASS - CSS Stub Creator
Great name huh? This is quite possibility the least “user experience” focused thing I have ever written. HOWEVER its really helpful, at least to me. I first design my sites like structuring an XML document. Defining the various structures in to data nodes, like header. pagesection, pageSectionSub etc etc. The problem is, that most of [...]
Mac OS X Printfu PDF Service
I would like to thank Michael Stephens who built a PDF Print service directly to PrintFU for Mac OS X. Using the “developer make a buck” feature of PrintFu, Michael will now get a dollar for each order from his service! The download can be found Here. The PDF Service in Mac OS X is [...]
They like me! They really like me! - PrintFu
Rob - author of Mac OS X Hints - received his PrintFu order (after his massive PDF assisted in finding a few bugs) and had this to say.As a follow-up, I received the manual (after my big print job helped find and fix a couple glitches in the system ), and it looks great! [...]
Get Price Quote Web Service
Get Price Quote - URL GETLocation: http://www.printfu.org/?mcAction=getPrice&pageCount=555Input: Page countOutput: Price ($8,65)Description: Using an HTTP Get call simply pass a “pagecount” url variable to http://www.printfu.org/?mcAction=getPrice. The result will be a Price. Pretty simple huh? Example
Lessons Learned
So we have now gotten some new lessons from our blitz of ordering last week.1. PDF’s larger than 70 meg will make the system choke. This happens due to the way we handle the PDF’s, PrintFu loads up the PDF in memory to do various tricks to it, then spits out a new copy. [...]
PrintFu - What a killer week!
I would like to thank everyone that has ordered from PrintFu in the last week. The response has been great! I was losing faith in the PrintFu concept. I personally thought it was so simple that it had to be successful. Then after 3 weeks went by with out a single order (NOT EVEN MY [...]
MacOSXHints.com
Thanks to Rob over at Mac OSX Hints for a nice story about PrintFu!
