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Import PDF into a report?
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30/09/2020 13:41:30
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01676305
Message ID:
01676341
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54
How about a slightly different approach -- you generate an HTML file for the report, then launch a Web Browser control to view it. The HTML could have the links to the URLs of the PDF files.

>Hi Martina,
>
>Converting PDF to images will be a manual work (I don't know how it could be done in VFP 9 code). And it would complicated the solution big time.
>
>It would be nice if the VFP 9 report would allow adding a URL pointing to a PDF file saved on the drive. And then would allow a user to click on this URL to open the PDF.
>
>Another thing would be nice if I could open several PDF files at once. I can open one PDF file using this:
>
>lnResult =Shellexecute(0, tcCommand, tcFileName, tcParameter,tcDirectory,tnShowCommand)
>
>Where the tcFilename is the PDF file name.
>
>Thank you.
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>PDF is very complex and many PDF's features VFP doesn't support.
>>May be will better convert each PDF page to image and put to report.
>>
>>MartinaJ
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is there a way to import some PDF files into VFP 9 report? Along with some other fields (e.g. date when PDF was added to a table)?
>>>
>>>TIA
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