Global Device Parameters
Omnis Studio provides numerous printing destinations such as the Printer,
Preview, RTF and HTML. These destinations are referred to as output devices.
Some of these devices have options that can be set via notation such as the
destination file name. However, these options are global and shared by all print
jobs regardless of the current thread.
PDFDevice Report Object to the rescue
The PDFDevice report object moves device parameter settings away from the global
memory space to the report instance memory space. This means the destination
file name or other options can be calculated and assigned within the context of
the report instance, avoiding potential problems
that can occur with globally shared options in a multi-threaded environment.
Printing to Memory (new for
version 3)
PDFDevice also allows report output to be send to an Omnis method such as a
method of the current task instance avoiding multithreading issues as well as
increasing performance.
