Re: Printable report

Dan Anderson wrote:
> I have an Internet application in which retail insurance agents enter 
> information for policy endorsements.  When they are finished I need for
them 
> to be able to download -- or somehow receive -- a printable version of the

> information they entered in a printable format.  My first choice would be
to 
> print it to .pdf file and email it back to them, or receive it any some 
> other manner.  Has anyone ever automated Adobe Acrobat from a dBase 
> executable?

Um, no, but it is apparently possible to do this kind of thing with PHP. 
I haven't tried it, but you will find PHP to be remarkably similar to 
dBASE ...

OR, create a regular (dBASE) report, and print to a .PDF using any of 
the options that have been listed regularly here in the newsgroups, such 
as PDF995 (shareware, but real inexpensive, and very good) ...

Ken

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I have an Internet application in which retail insurance agents enter 
information for policy endorsements.  When they are finished I need for them 
to be able to download -- or somehow receive -- a printable version of the 
information they entered in a printable format.  My first choice would be to 
print it to .pdf file and email it back to them, or receive it any some 
other manner.  Has anyone ever automated Adobe Acrobat from a dBase 
executable?

-- 
Dan Anderson
UBI Processing Dept.
andersond@ubinc.com
800-444-4824 ext 101 

In article <1G8DiCsNIHA.348@news-server>, andersond@ubinc.com says...
> I have an Internet application in which retail insurance agents enter 
> information for policy endorsements.  When they are finished I need for
them 
> to be able to download -- or somehow receive -- a printable version of the

> information they entered in a printable format.  My first choice would be
to 
> print it to .pdf file and email it back to them, or receive it any some 
> other manner.  Has anyone ever automated Adobe Acrobat from a dBase 
> executable?
> 
> 

Dan,

I see no reason why it could not be done. There have been many here who 
have created reports and printed them to PDF. You could do the same 
thing and then use e-mail to send the report as an attachment. This 
would require you to use timer objects or find some other means to 
regularly check when data has been received and to run a report 
corresponding to it.

People have used PDF995 successfully. It installs as a printer driver so 
you print to that "printer" and the end result is a PDF file. I think

Ken Mayer and others have had success using it. I have not tried it. If 
you have the latest Windows (XP or Vista), Microsoft has a PDF clone 
called XPS which works the same way. However, the viewer for XPS files 
is strictly browser-based. But, it does work just fine.

-- 
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Dan,

If you want to print to PDF see in the binairies newsgroep the article from 
Andreas Beckhaus.
He and Marc van den Berghem made a great pdf.cc which works very well. 
Better than Pdf995 which I used till I found this great custom class.

Ruud 

Dan Anderson Wrote:

> I have an Internet application in which retail insurance agents enter 
> information for policy endorsements.  When they are finished I need for
them 
> to be able to download -- or somehow receive -- a printable version of the

> information they entered in a printable format.  My first choice would be
to 
> print it to .pdf file and email it back to them, or receive it any some 
> other manner.  Has anyone ever automated Adobe Acrobat from a dBase 
> executable?
> 
Maybe you can try with DomPDF or HTMLDOC. Those generate a pdf file from the
server.