Amyuni Document Converter 300

[Elijah Rakestraw]

Ihad an earlier post about creating a PDF Portfolio, but have come full circle with the scope of the project and realize I am struggling with determining a good starting place and method for some basic PDF manipulation with PowerBuilder.

I am looking for some guidance on a good way to implement this project. It might be best to layout the scope of the project and ask if anyone has suggestions on the best way and 3rd party applications to use to accomplish this.

Scope: Create an application that will allow users to navigate through a list of Windows File system folders. Each of these folders will contain various documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email, PDF, etc.). The user will be able to select documents from the selected folder and then provide an output filename and location. The output file will convert all documents selected into PDF's, then combine all those PDF's into one PDF file.

I have all the code working up to the point where I need to covert the random file types into PDF. I also have a working installation of PDFTK that will combine all the PDF files into one large file and place in the desired location.

My roadblock is the conversion of the random file types into PDF's so I can join them. I have tried to implement Amyuni's PDF convertor. I can get it to work with existing PDF files, but don't seem to be able to get it to open other file types and convert to PDF. I think I have landed on the fact that the software is only for working with existing PDF files and not other formats.

This is where I could use the guidance. Can this be done with Amyuni's external functions? I just can't seem to find good documentation for a PowerBuilder implementation using Amyuni. There are several DLL's I have tried working with and just keep hitting a wall on understanding which methods to use or if it is even the correct action to be taking.

We use syncfusion to merge pdf's together. Though the install to just get the required DLLs, requires you to install a full suite, this part of pdf-merge of syncfusion is free, also for commercial use. I'm not sure about other PDF functionality, but I guess is it's also free?

I've never done this, but in my experience in order to convert an specific type of document, like a Microsoft Word document, you must open the document using their own toolset, in this case using MS Word. THEN you can save the document as a PDF is that's one of the SAVE AS capabilities of the tool.

However....

A quick Google search for "convert any document to pdf" lists Adobe Acrobat, and several tools that fall into thePDF CONVERTER category, which might prove to be useful to you.

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Rick - You didn't mention how the "source" files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.) are created and maintained. Do they change often or do they never change? Are changes to the source files performed by people or is it automated?

It might be simpler to require each source file to saved as a PDF in addition to the native source file format. That way you help to guarantee faithful rendering/conversion to PDF instead of relying on one or more utilities that may not faithfully create the PDF's.

My example has a function of_ConcatenateFiles but the files have to be PDF. You'd need some other tool to convert the other files to PDF. Amyuni has a function to turn PDF to Excel or Word but not the other way around.

When attempting to invoice out emails from Navision 2009, navision uses a tool "amyuni pdf converter" which when installed you have to rename "navision PDF converter". The converter saves a pdf to a temp location where navision grabs it and emails it out. It also does the same for payslips and remittance emails within navision.

Nav 2009 requires version amyuni 4.5.0 which could be issue with that version and windows 10. I installed version 5.5.0 and that worked but it brings up a prompt when exporting and then you need to save the name of the pdf identically to the name navision looks for the pdf in the temp location and doing that can take a good 5 minutes per email. When your doing 20 emails at a time this can cause a bit of an issue

I have spoken with our Dynamics Navision support partner and asked them to remove the Amyuni PDF converter and setup bullzip to work in its place. Their support department has said it will work but it may have a problem with batch emailing. Is this correct? or will bullzip work with one or multiple invoice or payroll emails with PDF printed attachments?

Hi Stephano, sorry this might be slightly off the original topic but can you tell me if NAV 2009 R2 is fully supported for windows 10, and if so is there any documentation that states this from Microsoft? reason i say this is our support partner for NAV is trying to brush their hands of our issues due to Windows 10 being installed and they are stating that its not supported.

Thanks for the reply stephano. Yea this is correct. Amyuni pdf printer was setup by external company. What can I setup to make this work and allow silent printing without the popup and file location requirements.

By "in LabVIEW" do you mean you want to write code in LabVIEW to interpret the PDF and rewrite it as as Word document? While it could be done, you'd spend days trying to implement all the details of the PDF and Word formats, assuming you could get access to all the details.

Otherwise you'd be better off looking for an application with a command-line or ActiveX interface that you can run to do the conversion, and then call it from LabVIEW. Do you need all the content of the PDF, or just the text? If you only need the text, search this forum for "Text from PDF" and you'll find links to some VIs and tools that can do it. You can then use the ActiveX interface to Word to write that text into a Word document, but you'll lose all formatting and layout.

Did this program come with any documentation? I don't see any on the web page, nor do I see an mention of support for use as an ActiveX component. Can the converter program be run from the command line?

Free Download Amyuni PDF Converter / PDF Suite Desktop 6 for Windows, The Amyuni PDF Suite is comprised of the Amyuni PDF Converter and PDF Creator. The converter is a virtual printer driver that quickly converts documents from any Windows application to PDF. The PDF Creator is a PDF editor that enables you to modify, annotate, merge, and print PDF documents.

Error. An install operation took too long to execute. This is a fatal error preventing product use. Please restart your computer and run this Installer again. If the problem persists, please check the product support web site for your product.

On the first two attempts, I used the original installation disk for Windows that came with the printer. On the third attempt, I downloaded the installation software from HP and used it, but to no avail.

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Thanks for your help. I was able to follow all of your instructions except those in bullet points 4 and 5. When I tried to remove any of the drivers per bullet point 5, I got a message such as this: "Unable to remove Amyuni Document Converter 400, x64, Type 3-User Mode Driver. The Specified driver is currently in use." Also, you did not say whether to select remove driver only, or remove driver and driver package, neither of which I was able to do.

That driver is the main cause for not able to install the printer driver. Follow the steps below to remove the Amyuni Document convertor driver and restart the PC to try the printer driver reinstallation once again.

My operating system is Windows 7. I assume by "open the start menu" you mean to click on the start button in the bottom left corner of my screen. When I do so, I don't see anything that says "settings" to click on.

Your post was not helpful. The support page your link took me to covers several approaches to removing software. Which one am I supposed to use? Can you not give me step by step instructions? Is the amyuni document convertor driver that you said to remove supposed to show up in the list of programs when using the Windows 7 uninstall feature?

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I only removed the printer although there were a couple of other items including a fax icon. When I went back and removed everything under devices and printers, and went through your full instructions the re-install was successful.

QuickBooks PDF Converter is a built-in utility that changes your company's QuickBooks reports and forms into Adobe Portable Document Format files. Converting the QuickBooks reports and forms into PDF form is ideal for sharing the files with associates who do not have QuickBooks on their computers. The conversion is done via QuickBooks' print component.

QuickBooks PDF Converter is a third-party utility by Amyuni that is initially installed within QuickBooks. The utility's proper name is Amyuni Document Converter. QuickBooks PDF Converter acts as a printer and contains its own drivers. Modifying the utility's drivers can cause QuickBooks PDF Converter to stop working.

Once the report or form is a PDF file, you can now email the file to associates, clients or other individuals. You can also upload the PDF file to a Web server, Intranet or computer network for sharing with others. Clients or colleagues can open the PDF file using any reader, including Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, PDF-XChange Viewer or Perfect PDF Reader.

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