Hi, I would also go for FoxyPreviewer, would not be able to construct an app without this class. You can export to virtualy anything: Word, Excel,PDF, RTF and print a normal report, with not more than one (1) mouseclick. Forget about anything else, the more FP is free and 100% VFP. Regards, Koen
2018-01-04 10:39 GMT+01:00 Laurie Alvey trukker41@gmail.com:
If you're using VFP tables or cursors, FoxyPreviewer lets you export seamlessly to PDF.
Laurie
On 4 January 2018 at 00:05, M Jarvis brewdaddy@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, still alive and kickin'....
I'm working up a proof-of-concept thing to add to our report writing engine, that being the ability to export our text based reports into a
PDF.
I know how to do the FDF creation part of this (thanks again Ted) but I seem to be coming up short in a couple of areas.
I am using LibreOffice to create my PDF template file, and not sure if
the
problem lives in there or not. I add a textbox control to a document,
save
as PDF, and later the FDF merge works just fine. BUT if the text starts getting any longer than what fits into the textbox as I've laid it out in the PDF, scroll bars appear and the textbox doesn't expand. I'm not
saying
it *should* do so automatically, but I can't figure out how to do that or even if it's possible.
Or, is there some other control available to LibreOffice I might try
using
that lets me FDF merge in files of large size?
In a perfect world there wouldn't be any control visible to the user at all, just the text of the report.
Some of our reports can be several thousand pages for Year-End stuff and all that...
Installing any software such as CutePDF or other to help drive this isn't an option at this time.
TIA,
-- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA
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