James Bott wrote:Richard,
http://www.utilitywarrior.com/Image-to-PDF-Dynamic-Link-Library.htm
OK. Now doesn't this just put the EMF files into a PDF? Isn't a EMF file an image? Therefore you have a graphic image in a PDF rather than text, so the viewer (person) would not be able to copy text out of the PDF. Also, the PDF file size would be much larger than one containing text.
After thinking about this some more, it seems that we have to use a print driver to get report output (from TReport and/or TPrinter) from a FW app into a PDF file as text. But that is compilcated by all the installation and licensing issues previously discussed.
There is a PDF class but the reports have to be built using that class which is very tedious, so I don't think that is a good solution either.
James
James
Basically the EMF file is converted to PDF through PNG conversion as far as i know (i may be wrong), this is due to compression factors.
Usually when we save a report to a PDF, we do not want users to retreive data from it and most users do not have the tool to retreive from pdf, they just have acrobat readers. Besides this, Image2pdf allows editing data fom a pdf just like accrobat does (accrobat distiller reader and writer). So there is no difference. You can also allow a lot of security issues. The size of a pdf produced with image2pdf is a bit higher that the one obtained with a true pdf printer. I tested it with big reports.
Of course printer driver is excellent but too problematic when you have too many users. You have to worry about their installation anyway.
We have replaced easypreview with fwh's preview + imge2pdf and shipped lots of updates . The result is excellent and we are quite happy about it.
Richard