TPrinter problem

[dpesic]

I have such problem, if report is printed to .pdf directly it creates file difrrent than if I use option Export to PDF from preview menu.
Its same report just printer 2 times with out without preview mode.

With preview mode it create file in my example with size: (1,503,600 bytes test-a.pdf) and as far I can see is %PDF-1.3 version
but if I use preview mode and export it create five with size: (203,198bytes test-b.pdf) and its %PDF-1.5 version ?!

[Antonio Linares]

Do they have the same content even if they are using different versions ?

[nageswaragunupudi]

When we export to PDF from Preview, the preview class first checks if MSWord is installed. If installed, the document is first exported to Word and then saved as PDF. This produces PDF with high quality and very small size.

In case Word is not installed, then the preview class uses the FWH built-in function FWSavePreviewToPDF(). This function does the job but is not efficient like MS Word and produces a file with large size.

When we directly export from Printer/Report, directly the inbuilt function FWSavePreviewToPDF() is used, producing a file larger than what Word would have produced.

This explains the reason for the different sizes and versions.

This also raises a question why can not exporting to PDF directly from Printer/Report can also adopt the same approach. Answer is yes. But this takes some time and we shall try to provide this in future versions.

[byte-one]

I use free eDocPrintPro Printer-Driver to make PDFs and other formats.
http://www.pdfprinter.at/en/

[nageswaragunupudi]

I use free eDocPrintPro Printer-Driver to make PDFs and other formats.
http://www.pdfprinter.at/en/

Doesn't this require installation on all client PCs ?
Or are you using SDK/DLL integrated into your application?

[byte-one]

For now i use installation on all clients. But every Printer-Driver lets install on the LAN for access from all clients!?

[hua]

I use free eDocPrintPro Printer-Driver to make PDFs and other formats.
http://www.pdfprinter.at/en/

Hi Günther,
How to use eDocPrintPRo to print to pdf silently? I mean, how do we programmatically assign the filename and output path?

TIA

[byte-one]

hua, see on the picture the settings: %DOCNAME% as filename. Also the path can set with %-variables.
http://byte-one.com/edoc.png

[hua]

Thank you Günther