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Lebans Report to PDF Question

I'm thinking of using Stephen Lebans Report to PDF utility/dll in a Jet
application I'm running (I want to be able email some reports with
complex information and the conversion to html just doesn't do it very
well). I'm wondering what effect or possible conflict there might be on
a system, such as mine or a user's, that already have Adobe Acrobat
Professional installed.

I'm assuming there wouldn't be - that Stephen's procedures would
generate the pdf via the dll and not go near the Adobe installation?

Forgive me if I sound suspicious, but my work applications against
Oracle require me to fire off pdfs I generate (via Acrobat Pro) several
times a day and I just want to make sure I don't cause myself any
problems... 8)

Thanks for any comments or any information about this or any other
possible unanticipated gotchas there might be.
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Be Careful, Big Bird!" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me
Feb 2 '07 #1
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Stephan can probably answer with more confidence but we have implemented it
without problem. Some of our clients have Adobe installed - I can't tell you
if it is Pro, Standard or otherwise or what version - and have reported no
problems. Two unregistered dll's and Access's native snapshot functionality
are all that are involved. It is so much better than programatically
manipulating a print driver as we previously did, not without incident. Just
my 2 cents.

"Tim Marshall" <TI****@PurplePandaChasers.Moertheriumwrote in message
news:ep**********@coranto.ucs.mun.ca...
I'm thinking of using Stephen Lebans Report to PDF utility/dll in a Jet
application I'm running (I want to be able email some reports with
complex information and the conversion to html just doesn't do it very
well). I'm wondering what effect or possible conflict there might be on
a system, such as mine or a user's, that already have Adobe Acrobat
Professional installed.

I'm assuming there wouldn't be - that Stephen's procedures would
generate the pdf via the dll and not go near the Adobe installation?

Forgive me if I sound suspicious, but my work applications against
Oracle require me to fire off pdfs I generate (via Acrobat Pro) several
times a day and I just want to make sure I don't cause myself any
problems... 8)

Thanks for any comments or any information about this or any other
possible unanticipated gotchas there might be.
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Be Careful, Big Bird!" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me

Feb 2 '07 #2
Hi Tim,
my solution only uses the 2 DLL's included with the sample MDB. It does not
install a PDF Printer Driver nor use one. The exact process is:

The selected report is exported to Snapshot format.
The Snapshot file is then decompressed.
The resultant file is a standard Windows Structured Strorage object
containing Enhanced Metafiles(EMF), one for each page of the report. My code
in the StrStorage.DLL reads the Structured Storage and extracts the EMF's.
The DynaPDF library contains a function to convert EMF records to their PDF
counterparts.

That's it. Microsoft was kind enough supply me with information on the
private data structures of the Snapshot file so that I can create a PDF doc
that is identical to original Snapshot.

--

HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.
"Tim Marshall" <TI****@PurplePandaChasers.Moertheriumwrote in message
news:ep**********@coranto.ucs.mun.ca...
I'm thinking of using Stephen Lebans Report to PDF utility/dll in a Jet
application I'm running (I want to be able email some reports with complex
information and the conversion to html just doesn't do it very well). I'm
wondering what effect or possible conflict there might be on a system,
such as mine or a user's, that already have Adobe Acrobat Professional
installed.

I'm assuming there wouldn't be - that Stephen's procedures would generate
the pdf via the dll and not go near the Adobe installation?

Forgive me if I sound suspicious, but my work applications against Oracle
require me to fire off pdfs I generate (via Acrobat Pro) several times a
day and I just want to make sure I don't cause myself any problems... 8)

Thanks for any comments or any information about this or any other
possible unanticipated gotchas there might be.
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Be Careful, Big Bird!" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me

Feb 3 '07 #3
Stephen Lebans wrote:
Hi Tim,
my solution only uses the 2 DLL's included with the sample MDB. It does not
install a PDF Printer Driver nor use one. The exact process is:
<snip>

HUrrah, I'm all set then. Thanks very much, Stephen. And thanks to
dmeister for your input as well.
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "What's UP, Dittoooooo?" - Ditto
Feb 3 '07 #4
On Feb 2, 10:54 pm, "Stephen Lebans" <ForEmailGotoMy.WebSite.-
WWWdotlebansdot...@linvalid.comwrote:
Hi Tim,
my solution only uses the 2 DLL's included with the sample MDB. It does not
install aPDFPrinter Driver nor use one. The exact process is:

The selected report is exported to Snapshot format.
The Snapshot file is then decompressed.
The resultant file is a standard Windows Structured Strorage object
containing Enhanced Metafiles(EMF), one for each page of the report. My code
in the StrStorage.DLL reads the Structured Storage and extracts the EMF's.
The DynaPDF library contains a function to convert EMF records to theirPDF
counterparts.

That's it. Microsoft was kind enough supply me with information on the
private data structures of the Snapshot file so that I can create aPDFdoc
that is identical to original Snapshot.

--

HTH
StephenLebanshttp://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.

"Tim Marshall" <TIM...@PurplePandaChasers.Moertheriumwrote in message

news:ep**********@coranto.ucs.mun.ca...
I'm thinking of using StephenLebansReport toPDFutility/dll in a Jet
application I'm running (I want to be able email some reports with complex
information and the conversion to html just doesn't do it very well). I'm
wondering what effect or possible conflict there might be on a system,
such as mine or a user's, that already have Adobe Acrobat Professional
installed.
I'm assuming there wouldn't be - that Stephen's procedures would generate
thepdfvia the dll and not go near the Adobe installation?
Forgive me if I sound suspicious, but my work applications against Oracle
require me to fire off pdfs I generate (via Acrobat Pro) several times a
day and I just want to make sure I don't cause myself any problems... 8)
Thanks for any comments or any information about this or any other
possible unanticipated gotchas there might be.
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Be Careful, Big Bird!" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Stephen,

I have been playing with your PDF creation code and I really like it.
Thanks for developing it. I have been having some issues when I
attempt to email the PDF file directly after I create it and then
delete the temporary file.. What I would like to do is be able to
convert a series of different Reports into individual PDFs and then
attach each of these to one email and send. Do you have an example of
how I might do this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ira

Feb 6 '07 #5
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news:11*********************@h3g2000cwc.googlegrou ps.com...
Hi Stephen,
I have been playing with your PDF creation code and I really like it.
Thanks for developing it. I have been having some issues when I
attempt to email the PDF file directly after I create it and then
delete the temporary file.. What I would like to do is be able to
convert a series of different Reports into individual PDFs and then
attach each of these to one email and send. Do you have an example of
how I might do this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ira
I have seen code posted over the last few months that shows you how to
integrate PDF conversion and Email. A GoogleGroups search should yield the
relevant threads.
--

HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.
Feb 6 '07 #6

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