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Resolved Archiving word document as a PDF file.

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  1. Vaibhav Kak
    Vaibhav Kak
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  3. Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:17 PM UTC

Hi All,

I am working on Windows 7 platform. And printing a word document from an application created using PowerBuilder 2017. During this process i want to archive the same file in a physical directory in 'PDF' format. 

Is it possible in PowerBuilder 2017? Kindly suggest how this can be achieved.

Best regards,

Vaibhav

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Miguel Leeuwe
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  1. Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:29 PM UTC
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If you have a recent verion of Word then you can open the document in word from in powerbuilder, using OLE and then doing a SaveAs choosing the PDF format.

 

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:04 PM UTC
That's great!
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Vaibhav Kak
  1. Vaibhav Kak
  2. Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:15 PM UTC
Found one helpful link:-

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/word.wdsaveformat
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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:19 PM UTC
Very useful :)
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Tobias Roth
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  1. Friday, 13 December 2019 06:25 AM UTC
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Hi,

here i have an example of our savetopdf-function.

It converts the most common microsoft office formats to pdf.

I hope that will help you.

I removed the trycatch-blocks for simplification, i recommend to add trycatch blocks when you call the oleobjects. 

smile

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Vaibhav Kak
  1. Vaibhav Kak
  2. Friday, 13 December 2019 06:55 AM UTC
Thanks! Roth.
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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Friday, 13 December 2019 09:28 AM UTC
Nice!

I would add that personally I would not do "ole_doc.Visible = true" (if you don't want to see word showing the document, but just want to save as PDF).

regards
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Tobias Roth
  1. Tobias Roth
  2. Friday, 13 December 2019 09:59 AM UTC
Thats correct, but when the word.exe crashes as background job the whole process hangs.

That was the easiest way to deal with that problem :-)
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