At one time, Microsoft Office Document Imaging was my preferred document
manager, because I could use it to assemble multiple documents, from
different software apps, by printing to its .MDI print driver and then
manipulating, merging, and rearranging the output pages.

With the update of MS Office 2003 through Service Pack 3, that option
has died. We can still open .MDI documents in the MODI software, but if
we call Menu .. File, or Alt-F, or Ctrl-P, the program hangs, every
time. According my research, there is no cure for MODI. The Wikipedia
article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...cument_Imaging)
references some of the disabling changes in Ofc SP3. If I can't print
with it, it's worthless. And MS's new XPS Writer seemed to offer no
document manipulation, as I could tell.

So I am researching PDF document managers, especially PDF reDirect Free
and PDF reDirect Professional. Though I have had page truncation issues
with PrimoPDF and PDF995, my reading of the Pdox Community NG's suggest
that most such issues disappear if I make the PDF-writer software the
PC's default before starting Paradox.

I hope this wonderful community will offer gentle correction if I'm
parking at the wrong dock!

Thanks!

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

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Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

GeneM wrote:
We use ghostscript to merge documents. I have a paradox form where you
select the documents to merge and it creates a script for ghostscript.
Works great. If you get clever with ghostscript you can add water marks
and that sort of thing as well.
Ghostscipt will merge postscript or pdf files and maybe some image formats.

--
Mark B

Here's snips of code that do that work:
stExe = ""
scan mytc :
stexe = stexe + " \""+mytc."FileName"+"\""
endscan


sthold = "c:\\program files\\gs\\gs8.54\\bin\\gswin32 "+"@c:\\test.rsp"

ts.open("c:\\test.rsp","nw")

ts.writeline("-sDEVICE=pdfwrite")
ts.writeline("-dBATCH")
ts.writeline("-dNOPAUSE ")
ts.writeline("-I\"C:\\gs\\fonts;c:\\PSFONTS;C:\\Program
Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 4.0\\Resource\\Font\"")
ts.writeline("-sOutputFile="+"\""+destfld.value+"\"")
ts.writeline(stExe)
ts.close()



if execute(sthold,Yes,ExeShowNormal) then
;launch adobe with created file
libMisc.LaunchFile(destfld.value)
endif

Old code. All the hard coded paths should be grabbed from the registry.
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Mark B

Here's snips of code that do that work:
stExe = ""
scan mytc :
stexe = stexe + " \""+mytc."FileName"+"\""
endscan


sthold = "c:\\program files\\gs\\gs8.54\\bin\\gswin32 "+"@c:\\test.rsp"

ts.open("c:\\test.rsp","nw")

ts.writeline("-sDEVICE=pdfwrite")
ts.writeline("-dBATCH")
ts.writeline("-dNOPAUSE ")
ts.writeline("-I\"C:\\gs\\fonts;c:\\PSFONTS;C:\\Program
Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 4.0\\Resource\\Font\"")
ts.writeline("-sOutputFile="+"\""+destfld.value+"\"")
ts.writeline(stExe)
ts.close()



if execute(sthold,Yes,ExeShowNormal) then
;launch adobe with created file
libMisc.LaunchFile(destfld.value)
endif

Old code. All the hard coded paths should be grabbed from the registry.
--
Mark B