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Report to PDF without PDF or EPS Printer
Hi,
I am searching a solution to create PDFs from Access-Report without a PDF-Printer. All solutions I have found (Adobe, Ghostscript, Fineprint....) need a installed PDF-Printer-Driver. My Application will be installed on hundreds of different machines, so I didn't want to get in trouble with all the administrators to install the right driver. It is no Problem to pay for a professional solution, but all controls I found need a installed PDF or EPS Printer. Perhaps Stephan Lebans way to create native EMF from SNP files is a way (Report - EMF -PDF)? But Stephens EMF-solution has some small restrictions :-(. Any hints ? Or is there somebody who writes such a tool for cash? -- So long Dieter |
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Dieter:
There's really no way to produce a PDF file without a printer driver. Outputting a report to a bit map or meta files is creating and image file. PDF's are not image files. They are editable documents. The internals of a correctly structured PDF file are quite extensive. Leave this up to the PDF printer driver developers. -- Steve Arbaugh ACG Soft http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg "Dieter Liessmann" wrote in message ... Hi, I am searching a solution to create PDFs from Access-Report without a PDF-Printer. All solutions I have found (Adobe, Ghostscript, Fineprint....) need a installed PDF-Printer-Driver. My Application will be installed on hundreds of different machines, so I didn't want to get in trouble with all the administrators to install the right driver. It is no Problem to pay for a professional solution, but all controls I found need a installed PDF or EPS Printer. Perhaps Stephan Lebans way to create native EMF from SNP files is a way (Report - EMF -PDF)? But Stephens EMF-solution has some small restrictions :-(. Any hints ? Or is there somebody who writes such a tool for cash? -- So long Dieter |
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Hi Steve,
Steve wrote: There's really no way to produce a PDF file without a printer driver. Outputting a report to a bit map or meta files is creating and image file. PDF's are not image files. They are editable documents. The internals of a correctly structured PDF file are quite extensive. Leave this up to the PDF printer driver developers. Of course it is correct, that PDF files normaly are no image files. But I did not need e editable PDF. You can get a PDF file with only one picture in it and so you have a PDF wich is not editable. But it not need to be a PDF. All what i want is a file that includes a identical copy of a report. This file has to be view with IE or Acrobat Reader. So a possible solution for example is to create a jpg or gif from a report. The Access own snp-format is such a solution, but it can only be shown with the snapshot-viewer :-(. -- So long Dieter |
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Dieter Liessmann wrote:
Hi Steve, Steve wrote: There's really no way to produce a PDF file without a printer driver. Outputting a report to a bit map or meta files is creating and image file. PDF's are not image files. They are editable documents. The internals of a correctly structured PDF file are quite extensive. Leave this up to the PDF printer driver developers. Of course it is correct, that PDF files normaly are no image files. But I did not need e editable PDF. You can get a PDF file with only one picture in it and so you have a PDF wich is not editable. But it not need to be a PDF. All what i want is a file that includes a identical copy of a report. This file has to be view with IE or Acrobat Reader. So a possible solution for example is to create a jpg or gif from a report. The Access own snp-format is such a solution, but it can only be shown with the snapshot-viewer :-(. Stephen Lebans has a utility that embeds the output of Snapshot Format inside an RTF file so that it can be viewed with any Word processor that handles RTF files. -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Rick Brandt wrote:
Stephen Lebans has a utility that embeds the output of Snapshot Format inside an RTF file so that it can be viewed with any Word processor that handles RTF files. Thats right, but the RTF format has some limitations so you can't get exactly the Report, unless you are using the special Wort-RTF-Format and then the user needs word. -- So long Dieter |
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Dieter Liessmann wrote:
Rick Brandt wrote: Stephen Lebans has a utility that embeds the output of Snapshot Format inside an RTF file so that it can be viewed with any Word processor that handles RTF files. Thats right, but the RTF format has some limitations so you can't get exactly the Report, unless you are using the special Wort-RTF-Format and then the user needs word. I am not familiar with these limitations you are talking about. Exporting directly to RTF has SEVERE limitations, but I have not heard of anything that limits what you get using Stephen's utility. Needing Word is a problem? So you have a target audience that wont have Word, can't or won't intall the Snapshot Viewer, but they will always have a PDF viewer? Are they using Macs or Linux? -- I don't check the Email account attached to this message. Send instead to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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There is one and only one limitation documented on the ReportUtilties
site and in the source code. Further it is a limitation of the Snapshot format not the final RTF output. THe Snapshot format encodes output designed by the Access Report design Line tool as a series of private Enhanced Metafile records. So what exactly are you talking about Dieter? -- HTH Stephen Lebans http://www.lebans.com Access Code, Tips and Tricks Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit. "Dieter Liessmann" wrote in message ... Rick Brandt wrote: Stephen Lebans has a utility that embeds the output of Snapshot Format inside an RTF file so that it can be viewed with any Word processor that handles RTF files. Thats right, but the RTF format has some limitations so you can't get exactly the Report, unless you are using the special Wort-RTF-Format and then the user needs word. -- So long Dieter |
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Another possibility is CutePDF --- free and simple --- but there really is
no way around a printer driver to handle this.... "Dieter Liessmann" wrote in message ... Hi, I am searching a solution to create PDFs from Access-Report without a PDF-Printer. All solutions I have found (Adobe, Ghostscript, Fineprint....) need a installed PDF-Printer-Driver. My Application will be installed on hundreds of different machines, so I didn't want to get in trouble with all the administrators to install the right driver. It is no Problem to pay for a professional solution, but all controls I found need a installed PDF or EPS Printer. Perhaps Stephan Lebans way to create native EMF from SNP files is a way (Report - EMF -PDF)? But Stephens EMF-solution has some small restrictions :-(. Any hints ? Or is there somebody who writes such a tool for cash? -- So long Dieter |
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There are third party tools to create pdf files. However you need to
basically code how the output appears in the pdf. Access reports are usually printed to pdf. Best bet is to deal with the distribution of your application so it also installs the pdf printer driver and at runtime changes to the pdf driver and changes back to whatever printer was choosen. You can buy our code if need to plug into your MDB to create pdfs, but it just works with a few of the pdf drivers. My two cents, Mark RPT Software http://www.rptsoftware.com "Dieter Liessmann" wrote in message ... Hi, I am searching a solution to create PDFs from Access-Report without a PDF-Printer. All solutions I have found (Adobe, Ghostscript, Fineprint....) need a installed PDF-Printer-Driver. My Application will be installed on hundreds of different machines, so I didn't want to get in trouble with all the administrators to install the right driver. It is no Problem to pay for a professional solution, but all controls I found need a installed PDF or EPS Printer. Perhaps Stephan Lebans way to create native EMF from SNP files is a way (Report - EMF -PDF)? But Stephens EMF-solution has some small restrictions :-(. Any hints ? Or is there somebody who writes such a tool for cash? -- So long Dieter |
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Hi Mark,
Mark Andrews wrote: There are third party tools to create pdf files. However you need to basically code how the output appears in the pdf. Access reports are usually printed to pdf. Best bet is to deal with the distribution of your application so it also installs the pdf printer driver and at runtime changes to the pdf driver and changes back to whatever printer was choosen. You can buy our code if need to plug into your MDB to create pdfs, but it just works with a few of the pdf drivers. Many of my customers using Metframes. On a Metaframe it is very tricky to install a printer and get it work in the right way. So this is unfortunately no solution for me. -- So long Dieter |
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