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==== Set_Printer("INIT") Statement (OpenInsight 32-bit Specific) ====
=== At 28 OCT 2004 12:56:20PM Casey Greenwood wrote: ===
 
{{tag>"OpenInsight 32-bit Specific"}}
 
<QUOTE>
I working utilizing PDF's for my reporting in my current system.  I have run across a problem I'm wondering if anyone has an answer to.  I would like to export a file to pdf to be saved in a specific location as well as print the file at the same time.  Currently I can set the Set_Printer("INIT") statement to Preview and it will save the file to the location.  If I set the same statement to Print, the file is not saved.  This happens even though I am setting the Export Format in both statements to PDF.



Is is possible to do both -- Save the file to a specific location while it Prints???



Here's an example of my code:



*** PDF ACTION IS DEFINED EARLIER BUT BASICALLY ASKS

*** USER WHETHER THEY WISH TO PREVIEW OR PRINT



FILENAME=TEXT TEST PRINT':@FM: '' :@FM: 6 :@FM: 'C:\REGFILE.PDF'

MARGINS=0.4:@fm:1.5:@fm:0.4:@fm:0.6



IF pdf_action=PREVIEW' THEN



*** THIS STATEMENT SETS THE FILE TO SPECIFIC LOCATION

 stat_init=Set_Printer("INIT", FILENAME, '', MARGINS, 0,5:@VM:@VM:1)



END ELSE



*** THIS STATEMENT PRINTS THE FILE DIRECTLY BUT DOESN'T SAVE IT

 stat_init=Set_Printer("INIT", FILENAME, '', MARGINS, 0)



END



Any help would be appreciated.

Casey Greenwood
</QUOTE>
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=== At 28 OCT 2004 02:29PM Don Miller wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>I don't think that OIPI will do both at once.  I had a similar problem a while back.  I saved the file as a PDF and then launched Adobe Reader.  I know it takes twice as long as what you'd like, but I don't think the output stream can be directed to two different logical devices at the same time.



Don Miller

</QUOTE>

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=== At 28 OCT 2004 04:03PM Casey Greenwood wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Thanks Don,



I kind of figured that was the problem.  I launch Adobe too with the preview but was hoping to save them the step of having to hit print in Adobe.



I may just have to try to create the same PDF twice in a couple of my reports, one that will save to a file, the other that will print, but it's going to be a lot of redundant code.



Casey

</QUOTE>

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=== At 30 OCT 2004 02:22AM Barry Stevens wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>In your code, after the file is created by oipi do:



Cmd="C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /p /h ':quote(Path:FileName)

	utility("RUNWIN",Cmd)

</QUOTE>

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=== At 30 OCT 2004 03:52AM Bob Silverstein wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Here is my approach to a slightly different task.  I save the file as a PDF but preview it before printing.  Here is my code.



PARAM1='

PARAM2='

PARAM5='



PARAM1=6

FILE=:\AREV3A\DSR'S\20": DATE-2, 2 : '\': DATE1, 3 : '\DSR ' : FMT(DATE(), 'DH') : '.PDF'

PARAM1=DRIVE : FILE



PARAM2=DSR for ' : FMT(DATE(), 'DH')



PARAM5=3

PARAM5=0

PARAM5=0

PARAM5=0

PARAM5=0

PARAM5=7

PARAM5=-1



A=SET_PRINTER('INIT', PARAM1, PARAM2, '', '', PARAM5)



Sometimes, I email the PDF and found out that the third-party PDF generator creates a PDF that AOL and some other ISP's trash.  This does not happen with the Acrobat PDF-Writer.

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