I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
- Matt Slay
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On 2017-09-27 19:45, Matt Slay wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
Hi Matt,
I think I had something weird like that happen to me and I ended up using the PDFCreator driver instead. Not 100% sure though.
hth, --Mike
Matt,
I don't think you're missing anything...the Microsoft PDF printer driver produces huge bitmap style PDF files and I would only recommend it as a very last last last resort.
I went with the Eqeus PDF driver a few years back and have never regretted it. www.eqeus.com http://eqeus.com/
Well supported, works great, and is fox-centric.
Mike Copeland
Matt Slay wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
- Matt Slay
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I have used and been satisfied with FoxyPreviewer v299z36
Kelvin
On 28/09/2017, Mike mike@ggisoft.com wrote:
Matt,
I don't think you're missing anything...the Microsoft PDF printer driver produces huge bitmap style PDF files and I would only recommend it as a very last last last resort.
I went with the Eqeus PDF driver a few years back and have never regretted it. www.eqeus.com http://eqeus.com/
Well supported, works great, and is fox-centric.
Mike Copeland
Matt Slay wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
- Matt Slay
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Primo PDF creates text-selectable pdfs.
From: Kelvin Matola matolakk@gmail.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 2:28 AM Subject: Re: Create PDF from FoxPro report with selectable text...
I have used and been satisfied with FoxyPreviewer v299z36
Kelvin
On 28/09/2017, Mike mike@ggisoft.com wrote:
Matt,
I don't think you're missing anything...the Microsoft PDF printer driver produces huge bitmap style PDF files and I would only recommend it as a very last last last resort.
I went with the Eqeus PDF driver a few years back and have never regretted it. www.eqeus.com http://eqeus.com/
Well supported, works great, and is fox-centric.
Mike Copeland
Matt Slay wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
- Matt Slay
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Hi Matt,
are you sure it is not dependig on the pdf reader you are using?
Or simply because you have not selected the correct tool to select text?
Anyway I'm using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
In my tests with PDF generated by PDFCreator 2.5 and Microsoft print to PDF (Windows 10 CU) with and without GDI+ I can always select and copy text.
Gianni
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:45:35 -0500, Matt Slay mattslay@jordanmachine.com wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
I have been using ghostscript and the haru-pdf (hpdf) library (which used by foxypreviewer iirc), and both produce selectable PDF.
You might want to play with your PDF generator settings, paying particular attention to font embedding. If you're using a font that is not one of the base 14 PDF fonts and it can't be embedded it may force rasterization of the document.
hth
dt
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Matt Slay mattslay@jordanmachine.com wrote:
I'm printing a FoxPro FRX to a PDF file using Adobe PDF printer driver from Adobe Acrobat (VFP9 SP2, Windows 10). Printing to the PDF works fine, but the text inside the generated PDF is not selectable text. It seems more like a rendered raster image. My customers are complaining because they want to be able to select text out of the PDF for copy-and-paste operations with other apps on their side.
I've also tried the Ghostscript drivers, and the results are the same.
Am I missing something?
- Matt Slay
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