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Generating PDFs via GhostScript
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01070602
Message ID:
01070614
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Russel,

I use GS to generate pdf's from VFP and it works like a charm.
You need to the following:
- install the Generic Postscript printer from Adobe (this creates the best postscript files
- write the report to a postscript file using the GenPSprinter
- start GS to convert the postscript file to a pdf (ps2pdf)

We use it with VFP in a COM+ environment without any problems. I can show you some examples if you want.

Regards,

Ron

I have tried Adobe PDFwriter, Distiller and several other tools but I use this combination now for its speed and stability.


>My clients haven't been clamoring for PDF versions of reports (they sometimes own Acrobat, anyway), but it would be nice to easily do this without too much hassle. I was testing XFRX and Mind's Eye this evening and, unfortunately, neither one of them was working.
>
>With Mind's Eye, I noticed that two images in the PDF which were supposed to be centered were rendered at a smaller size and over to the left, completely throwing off the look of the report.
>
>With XFRX, it generated those images ok, but on the second page of the report it just didn't generate two other images at all.
>
>And both of these eval copies are supposed to be full working editions (they just put in some "this is a demo" type of text).
>
>So I'm thinking I'll try GhostScript next. That seems a little more involved. Is anyone using this extensively with good results?
>
>Russell Campbell
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