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Gene Wirchenko
 
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Default VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-10-2006 , 05:30 PM






One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko


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Dan Freeman
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-10-2006 , 05:46 PM






There's a white paper on Rick Strahl's site that covers this.
http://www.west-wind.com

Dunno if it goes back three versions or not, but it's an older white paper.

Dan


Gene Wirchenko wrote:
Quote:
One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko



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Mike McCann
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-10-2006 , 06:50 PM




"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE> wrote

Quote:
One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene,

We are using the Mind's Eye PDF engine with VFP 9 in our web service which
prints customer bills. Works great, Rich gives us great support.
Recommended.

http://www.mindseyeinc.com/

Mike





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Josh Assing
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-11-2006 , 09:31 AM



I would look at frxtoany or a few others listed on universalthread

Stay away from eReports -- it started out as a strong contender; but failed to
live up to.. anything.


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:30:53 -0800, Gene Wirchenko <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE>
wrote:

Quote:
One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Cindy Winegarden
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-11-2006 , 12:38 PM



Hi Gene,

You could print the report to a PDF. In the downloads section of the
UniversalThread (www.universalthread.com) there's Print2PDF which is free
and works well. No need for Adobe.

--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy_winegarden (AT) msn (DOT) com www.cindywinegarden.com


"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE> wrote

Quote:
One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko




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Gene Wirchenko
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 03-14-2006 , 07:49 PM



On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:38:23 -0500, "Cindy Winegarden"
<cindy_winegarden (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:
You could print the report to a PDF. In the downloads section of the
UniversalThread (www.universalthread.com) there's Print2PDF which is free
and works well. No need for Adobe.
It did not install. It installed the PostScript printer (and
printed a test page fine), but then choked on the GhostScript
installation.

It appears that it might work just with report files, and my
reports are coded. I could not get far enough to check though.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko



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wayne dooley
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 04-30-2006 , 06:21 AM



For what it's worth, we do this regularly with Crystal Reports. It has a
rich variety of export options. Not worth it to get Crystal just for PDF,
but there are numerous other things it can do, and it is much more robust
than the VFP report tool. We rev-locked on v.9 since that still had native
support for FOX2X, no DB connection required.

regards
wayne

"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE> wrote

Quote:
One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko




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Cy Welch
 
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Default Re: VFP 6: Printing to PDF - 04-30-2006 , 08:04 PM



wayne dooley wrote:
Quote:
For what it's worth, we do this regularly with Crystal Reports. It has a
rich variety of export options. Not worth it to get Crystal just for PDF,
but there are numerous other things it can do, and it is much more robust
than the VFP report tool. We rev-locked on v.9 since that still had native
support for FOX2X, no DB connection required.

regards
wayne

"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE> wrote in message
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One of the latest requests I have is for my system to print
invoices in PDF format. We are looking to have this replace the file
copy as well.

I have looked through the Adobe Acrobat documentation, but can
not find any information on how to automate the process. I do not see
any API documentation in the docs. We have an older version (4.0) and
are looking to upgrade shortly, so if it got documented later, that
would be a useful answer, too.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko




I don't know why you would need to rev lock at v9 of Crystal Reports.
We talk directly to fox2x files all the time with Crystal 10 and 11.

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