List & Label in Azure App Service

[Bert_Sleurs]

Hello,

We are trying to get List & Label 23 to print from a REST service which is hosted in an Azure App Service.

We cannot get this to work, because there is no printer (driver) available. Is there a solution for this?

I’ve been searching on the Combit forum and knowledge base, but all articles regarding this problem are from 2016, so are there any new developments/solutions maybe?

Thanks in advance,

Bert

[jbartlau (combit - Jochen Bartlau)]

Unfortunately there is no workaround for the missing printer driver issue.

LL heavily relies on being able to create device contexts and working with metafile. The most recent information can be found here in the knowledgebase which is probably what you’ve read already.

[jbartlau (combit - Jochen Bartlau)]

This is going to change in version 27:

Using List & Label without a printer driver

Introduction Starting with version 27, List & Label can be used without a printer driver present in the system. This is especially important in cloud environments like Azure or AWS, where printers are often not installed and cannot be re-installed for security reasons. This also has great advantages for Docker images, as it eliminates the rather tedious and not well scaling printer installation. Procedure To enable the new mode, do the following: .NET / VCL The components have a new prope…