Help with testing printed output
I've done a lot of searching and am having trouble finding a solid solution. The software I'm testing prints reports. So far, we've regression tested them manually by printing to pdf or xps, b...
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Thanks, Andrey.
OCR is not an option for me because I have the standard edition and it sounds like it doesn't work reliably anyway. I have tried printing to a text file to confirm certain generated values, but the output from Windows' text printer is strangely formatting (has spaces everywhere), so what I get looks like this:
thi s is n otread able
It would be difficult to parse reliably. I was hoping TestComplete would be able to test print output, but I may have to using manual verification. Such is life.
OCR is not an option for me because I have the standard edition and it sounds like it doesn't work reliably anyway. I have tried printing to a text file to confirm certain generated values, but the output from Windows' text printer is strangely formatting (has spaces everywhere), so what I get looks like this:
thi s is n otread able
It would be difficult to parse reliably. I was hoping TestComplete would be able to test print output, but I may have to using manual verification. Such is life.