FwSavePreviewToPdf

[Massimo Linossi]

I don't like "Microsoft Print to PDF" very much because the result PDF is almost ten times bigger than the one created by PDFCreator. And PDFCreator can be driven by OLE.

EMG

Hi Enrico
What can you make with Ole ? Have you found any example of Ole functions available ?
Thanks a lot

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

This is a sample:

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#include "Fivewin.ch"


FUNCTION MAIN()

    LOCAL oPdf := CREATEOBJECT( "PDFCreator.JobQueue" )

    LOCAL oJob

    LOCAL oPrn

    oPdf:Initialize()

    PRINT oPrn TO "PDFCreator"
        PAGE
            oPrn:Say( 0, 0, "This is a test" )
        ENDPAGE
    ENDPRINT

    IF !oPdf:WaitForJob( 10 )
        ? "Errore"
    ELSE
        oJob = oPdf:NextJob()

        oJob:SetProfileSetting( "OpenViewer", "False" )
        oJob:SetProfileSetting( "ShowProgress", "False" )

        oJob:ConvertTo( "E:\FWXHARB\TEST" )

        IF !oJob:IsFinished .OR. !oJob:IsSuccessful
            ? "Errore"
        ENDIF
    ENDIF

    oPdf:ReleaseCom()

    RETURN NIL

EMG

[Massimo Linossi]

Wow !!!
So you know where can i find a list of the functions ?
Thanks a lot

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

In the PDFCreator website, I think.

EMG

[Massimo Linossi]

Great.
I'm going to look there.

[AntoninoP]

About FwSavePreviewToPdf, I see it creates enormous jpg, maybe it is possible reduce them to 1/4 (half width and half height) and in some case made it in Grayscale...
What do you think?

[nageswaragunupudi]

About FwSavePreviewToPdf, I see it creates enormous jpg, maybe it is possible reduce them to 1/4 (half width and half height) and in some case made it in Grayscale...
What do you think?

Yes, there is some scope. We are testing.

[AngelSalom]

where can I download or buy image2pdf.dll?
Thanks

[vilian]

The website of sold image2pdf was www.utilitywarrior.com, but it's closed.
The owner of this, wanted to sell the source code of Image2Pdf, but I think Antonio Linares don't guess this interesting.

[Armando]

Ángel:

Hace un par de años compre Image2pdf pero lo tengo en EXE no DLL

Su uso es muy sencillo

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            WaitRun("img2pdf.exe -$ AQUI_VA_TU_LICENCIA -p 1 -r -1 -o " +;
                     '"' + ALLTRIM(cPdfFile) + '"' + SPACE(01) +;
                     '"' + ALLTRIM(aFiles[nVez]) + '"',0)
 

Saludos

[AngelSalom]

Gracias, una pena que ya no esté disponible.

[Armando]

Ángel:

Dale una mirada a este link

http://www.verypdf.com/wordpress/201106 ... e-139.html

Ojalá te sirva.

Saludos

[Carlos Mora]

Regards Image2Pdf, it did a good job, but when used to transform META to get real (not image) pdf, i had _many_ issues related to font translation. Usually the problems came from the fact that font names are different in Spanish than English, so the library wasn't able to make the right font translation. By that time I worked with the author of the library, but we weren't able to find a solution for the issue.

I also used PdfCreator, who gave me one of the best results in terms of quality. It really produces very small pdfs, and you are able to select and copy text from them. The only issue I had was that managing the printJob queue is time/resource consuming, and eventually having more than one program producing pdf documents can be really difficult to manage. To produce masive pdfs like in payroll printing, it didn't make.

When pdf size and quality matters, there is nothing like use a library that write real pdf documents, like Haru. Realy fast, lightweight, and the best results you can get. You may take a look at the following library, Mastintin and I were working on it some months ago. It will give you a good starting point to help in the convestion of current FW printing code.

https://bitbucket.org/carlos_mora/pdfprinter/

[nageswaragunupudi]

When pdf size and quality matters, there is nothing like use a library that write real pdf documents, like Haru. Realy fast, lightweight, and the best results you can get.

https://bitbucket.org/carlos_mora/pdfprinter/

Can this be used from Print Preview to convert Meta files (emf) to pdf files, without going back to the original program that generated the report?

We very eagerly look forward to any advice and guidance from experts as to how to convert meta files to pdf, with compact size and quality comparable to MS Word.

[Carlos Mora]

Hi Rao,

Can this be used from Print Preview to convert Meta files (emf) to pdf files, without going back to the original program that generated the report?

Nope. It just translates FW's TPrinter methods into LibHaru calls. As I mention in my previous message, I tried to help Image2Pdf's author to help with that kind of convertion, I wasn't able to find a straight way to translate font names from a language into another, it was a very tricky matter.

One of the most common solutions to that convertion is to transform the EMF into something GhostScript can handle, like PCL5 (the language used by HP it its printers) and then distile it to pdf. I've played with GhostScript for a while and fount it really awesome.

There are other things that the Windows printing model would not be able to handle, like decide when to embed fonts, to reuse images like those used in watermarks, etc that will make such tool not complete in certain cases.