Hi Alan

Yes, I have come across that problem but I'm afraid I can't remember whether we fixed it and, if so, how. I do remember that under certain conditions, the behaviour you describe does occur. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 22 February 2022 11:26 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

We have a customer who when printing a particular report from a Visual Foxpro application sometimes selects the Microsoft PDF Printer (installed with MS Office). This then prompts for a PDF file to save the report output to. They then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader or whatever and need to select and copy some text from it.

The problem is that sometimes the PDF is rendered as an image so no individual elements are selectable in Acrobat Reader. All fonts on the layout are standard Arial. There are no settings on the PDF printer to adjust and nothing on the VFP side that I can see would affect it.

Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC works fine.

Has anyone ever come across this ?

I don't know if this will help but if you open a PDF in Word it will automatically convert it to a Word document - even if the pdf actually contains an image.

John

John Weller 07976 393631

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 22 February 2022 11:26 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

We have a customer who when printing a particular report from a Visual

Foxpro

application sometimes selects the Microsoft PDF Printer (installed with MS Office). This then prompts for a PDF file to save the report output to.

They

then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader or whatever and need to select and

copy

some text from it.

The problem is that sometimes the PDF is rendered as an image so no individual elements are selectable in Acrobat Reader. All fonts on the

layout are

standard Arial. There are no settings on the PDF printer to adjust and

nothing

on the VFP side that I can see would affect it.

Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC

works

fine.

Has anyone ever come across this ?

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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Hi Alan,

Yes that's a known problem for the "new" Printengine of VFP9. Just do a SET REPO 80 to use the old engine, which will then produce pure textbased PDFs.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com Im Auftrag von Alan Bourke Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Februar 2022 12:26 An: profoxtech@leafe.com Betreff: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

We have a customer who when printing a particular report from a Visual Foxpro application sometimes selects the Microsoft PDF Printer (installed with MS Office). This then prompts for a PDF file to save the report output to. They then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader or whatever and need to select and copy some text from it.

The problem is that sometimes the PDF is rendered as an image so no individual elements are selectable in Acrobat Reader. All fonts on the layout are standard Arial. There are no settings on the PDF printer to adjust and nothing on the VFP side that I can see would affect it.

Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC works fine.

Has anyone ever come across this ?