OpenInsight and Acrobat Reader with DDE (OpenInsight Specific)
At 19 JAN 2000 04:23:21PM Wayne Shepard wrote:
Owing to the fact that the PRINT statement doesn't work properly in OpenInsight, I'm trying to print some reports to disk in PCL format, convert them to PDF files and then have Acrobat Reader read and print them.
The problem is that, while I am able to use DDE to connect to Excel and Word with no problem, I am unable to connect to Acrobat Reader. The Reader documentation says to use service name "acroview" and the topic name "control". It also says the transaction type is XTYPE_EXECUTE and the item name in the DdeClientTransaction call is NULL. The service name, topic name and item name I can verify. I don't know whether XTYPE_EXECUTE is being used though. How can I be sure?
And is there any other reason why I wouldn't be able to get this to work?
At 20 JAN 2000 07:47AM Tony Marler @ Prosolve Software wrote:
Wayne
As an aside have you looked at Tony Splavers OIPI product for printing from OI. Demo is available from his website.
Tony
At 20 JAN 2000 02:39PM Wayne Shepard wrote:
Actually I'm working with a person who claims to have helped develop that product.
Meanwhile, however, I've solved the problem. The problem was that while the documentation says the parameters have to be in lower case, OpenInsight requires them to be in upper case. Lower case works fine with Visual Basic apps, but not with OpenInsight. Go figure…
But it has led to a new problem (see my other posting).