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... oFont8:nHeight      Next   EndifEndifLine := xLine.............  This code works fine if you send the output to the previewer ( rpreview.prg ) and select the Adobe icon .. I was hoping to create this form silently and send it to file as a Pdf .. Any ideas ?? FWHARU ...

i still have a question "How does FWH Previewer Export to PDF option create output with copy/paste capabilities?" I am not sure if I understand what exactly do you have in mind. Previewer's Export to PDF option does not allow Paste of ...

i still have a question "How does FWH Previewer Export to PDF option create output with copy/paste capabilities?"

what button of the previewer do you mean ?

what code does the Previewer button execute?

Do these coding changes include writing to a PDF that allows copy / paste like the Export to PDF Button on the FW Previewer?

Don,

> clicking on the Export to PDF from the FiveWin previewer produces on that can be copy/pasted as text

Not sure if we can call the button function directly

We are checking it

clicking on the Export to PDF from the FiveWin previewer produces on that can be copy/pasted as text.

how does that happen?

dtussman

If you would like to globally turn off the previewer thumbnails .. add this to the top of your program .. this may solve your intermittent problem by not showing the thumbnails at all ....

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TPreview():lListViewHide := .T.
 

Rick Lipkin

AntoninoP wrote:The CloseHandle( hFile ); in HB_FUNC( ADDPREVIEWC ) does not allow to pdf previewer to read the file.
It is because you don't view the pdf preview.

In case of pdf, the preview is created from the stream not the file. In that case, why would the previewer require the file to be open?

The CloseHandle( hFile ); in HB_FUNC( ADDPREVIEWC ) does not allow to pdf previewer to read the file.
It is because you don't view the pdf preview.

... the printer object, but does not show the printer pallet. Here is my current code .. I pass "P" to print and "V" to the previewer Rick Lipkin PrnSetCopies(nCopies)IF cVIEW = "V"   PRINTER oPRINT FROM USER                ;   PREVIEW MODAL             ...

... made sure I passed the main MDI Window object to all child process and dialogs down to the print routine .. still having the same problem when the previewer comes up .. all my dialogs come to the forefront and I have to close them all to get to the preview .. :cry: If I just send the job to the ...

To All I am going nuts here trying to figure out why when I run a simple report from a modal dialog several dialogs deep .. when the report previewer comes up .. the previewer goes behind all my dialogs .. I do not want my dialogs to come to the forefront .. I want them to stay behind the previewer ...

... to. I would just a soon not have the main MDI menu show thru the rpreview .. is there a new setting to NOT allow the MDI menu's to show from the previewer ?? Rick Lipkin SC Dept of Health, USA