export vfp report to *.pdf

[Rob]

Dont know about PDF but try Hotsend a free download on www.hotsend.com makes
emailing fox reports easy!!

[Jeremy Dee]

First off, you'll need a full copy of Adobe Acrobat, then visit
www.west-wind.com . Rick Strahl's got info on how to tweak the PDFWrtr.ini
in order to set a PDF filename b4 the printjob hits (so that the typical
acrobat printer driver dialogues don't pop up) . After this is taken care of
its as simple as a "Set Printer to Name <cPDFWriter Name>" and then "Repo
Form..".

HTH
Jeremy

jack <knc...@glink.net.hk> wrote in message
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> As Title, I want to print the report into *.pdf.
> Then, the user can send via Email-Attachment .
>
> Pls Help.
> Thanks in Advance.
> From Agnes
>
>

[Pete Cuiry]

Rob,

Hotsend is nice, but can it be controlled from within foxpro other than
setting it as the printer?

For example, how can I set the file name and have Hotsend save the file
without user interaction?

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[Aqui morales]

this is one question i would love to have answered!
but i cant find one!

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[jack]

[Mike Chalk]

"jack" <knc...@glink.net.hk> wrote:

>As Title, I want to print the report into *.pdf.
>Then, the user can send via Email-Attachment .

As suggested in another post, you could go the way of Adobe Acrobat -
I have done so my self and achieved good results. However - there is
another way, less convenient but free and you can get it up and
running in a few minutes from a single download. All you want from
Acrobat is a printer driver which you can use to set up a 'printer'
which saves a PDF file on disk rather than print on paper. At one
time I believe Adobe sold this separately (PDFWriter) for a few
dollars - now you have to buy the whole CD full of applications (lots
of useful stuff probably nothing you need to enhance your particular
job). Adobe appear to have this writer controlled (the process of
writing the PDF files directly) and there don't seem to be shareware
alternatives out there. This may be due to copyright restrictions - I
don't know. However, oddly enough there are several
freeware/shareware converters out there which convert to and from
various file formats, including postscript to PDF. To produce a
postscript file simply add a printer from your desktop, say the HP
5/5M postscript and set it's output to file (it doesn't matter that
you don't have such a printer since you won't actually print, only
produce postscript format files). Then use a postscript to PDF
converter - I suggest Alladin's GSView which is an excellent program
with a free public license (I suggest you search the web to find out
where to download it).

To summarise - Adobe Acrobat is more convenient but you only need to
install it's printer driver called PDFWriter, PDF reports are produced
directly from foxpro. Alladin's GSView is free but you have to do it
in two stages - print normally but directed to a postscript file and
then you run GSView to convert it to PDF.

Mike mike...@dial.pipex.com

[Scott Hatmaker]

So far there is not a way to automate Hotsend as I have had it for about
awhile now. However, a buddy off mine is starting to put together a class
that could control Hotsend and do what we all want. I will keep you posted
as he progresses...

Scott

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