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Creating filled in PDF forms with VFP
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25/02/1999 23:33:54
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Visual FoxPro
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>You hsould look at Rick Strahl's wwPDF class. It takes care of a lot of headaches involved with creating PDF files automatically. I use the class on one website to generate PDFs left and right, with no problems whatsoever.

There is no problem with generating the PDF files - it's in gettomg the stuff
to run in a browser, especially if loaded dynamically. There are memory leaks,
a bad hosting container implementation for ActiveX (which causes pages to reload multiple times and often not display the result data at all - until you move forward and back in the browser). Stuff like that...

It's really too bad, because Acrobat's rendering is excellent. I'm really surprised that Microsoft hasn't taken the opportunity of a shitty product and overrun Adobe here - prime opportunity. Especially given that Acrobat is so popular a format...

Oh well... it's obvious that the powers that be don't think of these tools at 'dynamic' tools that generate data for display on the fly. Is it just us? Using technology in ways it wasn't meant to...

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