>>>>>We need to be able to send documents in a readable format to many places. I thought about Adobe PDF files.
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>>>>>Does anyone send their data in PDF format for viewing by others? If so what does it take to be able to save data in that format. I have a call in to Adobe and am waiting on a response. I wanted to check here also, so maybe I do not have to reinvent the wheel.
>>>>You need to look for PDF converters. There are some on the market. Adobe Acrobat full version comes with PDF Writer. I use Amyuni.com. After all they are just another printers on your system. Thus when you print you can select them as a printer to print to. Your program before sends anything to print has to set a file name for these printers. Programs do that differently, but concept is same: Set file name, select converter as a printer, send report to that printer (not file!!!) and you have a PDF file.
>>>>HTH Mark
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>>>all the above have answered your question well. would offer an additional observation about a recent project....
>>>
>>>i have output that consists of a concatenation of up to 17 separate reports.
>>>therefore, when printing them, it was a nuisance to send 17 jobs to the
>>>printer, with the possibility that somebody else's print job might get
>>>mixed in. it was equally a pain to e-mail the output as 17 different
>>>attachments, so of course combining them into a single entity was the
>>>thing to do.
>>>
>>>not saying you want to go to all this trouble, but using acrobat 5.0,
>>>i produce 17 separate ps (postscript) files using the generic postscript printer driver from adobe.com (autogenerating the filenames). then programatically generate a postscript script file which invokes the /prun command, and enumerate those 17 postscript files. distill the postscript script file, produce a single pdf file. then run reader to open the file and let user print, fax, e-mail, etc. invoked both distiller and reader using createprocess & waitforsingleobject api functions.
>>>
>>>the advantage of adobe reader 5.0 over 4.0, is that it now has a
>>>graphics selection tool. you can cut any section of the pdf doc and
>>>paste it into (for example) a word or powerpoint document.
>>And the question would be ...?
>>Mark
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>and the question would be ... ?
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>if he want to send a single report, no problem, make a pdf file ; if his
>transmission consists of more than one report maybe he wants to combine
>them. then again, maybe he doesn't.
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There different ways to concatenate PDF files. Product I am using does that by design, you also can use Acrobat to insert pages from one file to another. There are third party products which will do that job for you.
Mark