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How to chain together Portrait & Landscape
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04/10/2009 15:19:01
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01427415
Message ID:
01427657
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>>>>I haven't played with vfp's report engine in a while, but if this isn't possible natively, you might concatenate all the reports as a pdf and have the client preview that. PDF's can have mixed layouts and page sizes in them.
>>>>
>>>>Alex
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Alex,
>>>
>>>I was thinking about this solution too - but not sure how to concatenate PDFs.
>>
>>Using GhostScript and Paul James' Print2PDF class, which is available here in the UT downloads section, you can concatenate PDFs. There are probably other ways, too.
>
>Just a word of warning here. I'm using that too (though not concatenating - not being a chains and bondage person), and recently I had a series of mailmerged documents where some stuff would be missing in the resulting PDF - sometimes a few fields in the header of the document but the rest would be fine, sometimes it would just stop producing PDF somewhere halfway through a table. Looking at the intermediate .ps file, I don't see anything wrong, but then the PostScript is complicated anyway, and me not seeing a difference between the last good line and the line where it stops doesn't mean GhostScript (even the latest version) won't see it. And the PS driver is very old, Adobe isn't updating.
>
>It seems that it happened with documents created in Word 07, while the printing to PS was on W03, with the plugin which enables it to read W07 documents. It seems the plugin is, as M$ would say, suboptimal. Solved by installing W07 on the machine where the conversion runs (it's a batch thing, so I wouldn't have to install it on all workstations).

Re: "not being a chains and bondage person" . . . oh, gosh, you're missing so much. <g>

The only issue that I know of having is when the Printer Environment for the VFP report is not cleared. Then I would get blank pages. Other than that, it seemed to work fine. I am only using VFP reports to PDF, then concatenating (in some cases, not all).
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