>>>>>>>We need to be able to send documents in a readable format to many places. I thought about Adobe PDF files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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
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>the "product that you are using" ... is that the Amyuni creator & converter ?
>i had not worked much with pdf before, and was not aware of those alternatives.
>even so, i tend to shy from 3rd party products being incorporated into
>important, long-lived projects here, for a couple reasons: need to be
>able to rely on long-term product availablity and completeness of features.
>also the documents in question here contain high quality graphic images, which
>need to be preserved. like to go straight to horses mouth, so to speak.
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>the "product that you are using" ... is that the Amyuni creator & converter ?
This is the converter.
Mark