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Creating PDF from VFP6.0 Report
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02/07/2002 03:09:44
Gavin Reid
L & M Marketing Pty Ltd
Frenchs Forest, Australia
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
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Its my understanding that Adobe specifically restricts this in their EULA.
There are server products which are designed to work as a 'server'
like active pdf at

http://www.activepdf.com/en/start.asp
and depending on your experience, you could put ghostscript on the 'server' either linux / unix or Nt/2000 and have it work to convert your vfp .ps files to pdf files. If you wanted to ghostscript, you could install the printer driver and a port monitor called redmon which basically executes the program ps2pdf when some print application requests a print.
Other soltuions for server based pdf are avail at www.pdfzone.com
The concept is really simple, have vfp create a .ps file using any print driver which creates a .ps file (hp lj5 for example) then use a 'converter' which converts your .ps file to a pdf file. This can be done in one step, using just the printer driver, or some sort of directory watching program, or manually.

Bob Lee

>Hi All,
>
> I'm currently working on an LAN application ( not web ) that requires an option to output VFP6.0 reports to PDF. I've done this previously using Rick Strahl's WWPDF classes and Adobe Acrobat Distiller installed on the Client. The application I'm currently working on requires that Distiller ( or any other PDF generator ) resides on the server and that all report output created on the client is generated as PDF on the server. My previous experience with creating PDF with VFP6.0 has been purely on the client. Has anyone here had experience with creating PDF reports on the server from VFP reports generated on a client? Any advice would be most helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>Gavin...
In the beginning, there was a command prompt, and all was well.
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