Gary,

That sounds like a lot of work. At the moment I can't read in an RTF or WORD document into the tool and lay it out. However, with all of my internal methods it is not impossible. It just won't be there in the very near future. I can handle the generation of a document like what you describe in Word with the multiple layers and then generate a PDF from it. However, the spreadsheet stuff I would have to think about on the best way to handle that. I also have to write the code to embed the fonts yet for PDF documents.

However, if you are programatically creating RTF you could use my tool by writing VFP code to generate the same document straight into my Report Engine. I could also add some more methods to create Spreadsheet type Grids as well which would make it easier much like I did on adding the Chart Data methods. So, it is definitely doable. Do the documents need to even be in a Word document or is that just because of the automation to add the spreadsheets and then the document ends up in a PDF?

Have you looked at my DEMOIT() Method in the VCX to doing things in a programmatic fashion?


> Just out of interest, will your tool (not the VFP bit) have the ability to convert a very
> heavily processed Word document (containing some really fancy stuff) into PDF (from within a VFP app)?

> The Word document contains several embedded InlineShapes, mutiple layers, and some custom fonts.
> The fonts would have to be added into the PDF file. I process originally using programatically created
> RTF and then layer in some formatted Excel spreadsheets using automation. At the moment, I auto-fax
> the document to target sites (and print the original that is posted) but as everything is in Word,
> I would like to convert to PDF so that the target site can download the PDF and print an "original"
> version locally. These documents are legal documents and have security print features, hence the custom
> fonts and various "effects" in the document.

> Let me know if your tool can do this. If it can, along with its VFP capabilities, it may be a good investment.