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Changing report name for PDF
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From
09/06/2015 12:51:16
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
 
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09/06/2015 11:33:07
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01620780
Message ID:
01620793
Views:
74
>>>Hi All:
>>>
>>>I have the following command:
>>>
>>>
>>>REPORT FORM BLARG TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW
>>>
>>>
>>>If I click the 'print' icon, I get a dialog to choose printers. If I choose the 'CUTEPDF' printer, a PDF report is created with the name 'BLARG.PDF'.
>>>
>>>How can I get a more descriptive pdf name to be created like 'Batch_1001.PDF'?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Yossi
>>
>>You need reportbehaviour on 90
>>
>>
>>
>>*tnListenerType you have to figure out from help
>>DO (_REPORTOUTPUT) WITH tnListenerType,loListener
>>loListener.PRINTJOBNAME = cDecriptiveName
>>REPORT FORM BLARG TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW OBJECT loListener
>>
>
>Thanks! That changed the name.
>
>The only thing is that it makes no difference if I say
>
>
>cDescriptiveName = 'c:\myreportfolder\Batch001'
>
>
>It still outputs the PDF file (Batch001) to the last folder that I used for CutePDF.

This is because your PDF printer driver maintains it's own ideas where to place the output. This is outside VFP.

There is ongoing PDF printer driver thread#1620781 about this problem.
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