Discussions tagged PDF
This is regarding Powerbuilder Server Upgrade. Recently we have upgrade one of our application named Harold from Server 2012 to 2021. This application is accessed via citrix icon.
We can see our application in working fine, but in one of the functio...
Creating a PDF document using multiple ImportDatawindow() calls
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- Last updated 2 months ago
- René Ullrich replied 2 months ago
Hi,
We are trying to create a PDF document using the PDFDocument object and multiple ImportDatawindow() calls, but page breaks are inserted between each datawindow.
Is there a way to delete these page breaks in the PDFDocument or do we have to use ...
Hi,
does anyone out there know how to convert a pdf to excel or csv / text programmatically, or using an command line converter.
I am using the latest verison of PB on windows 10
I have a requirement to be able to check a pdf document listing tran...
Hi we are creating charts in WMF format, when using a virtuel PDF printer the charts looks great, but when using PDF Lib (PDFNative) it looks really bad quality.
Why is this the PDFNative not creating good quality of the images? Se attahced files.
...
How to print pdf files from powerbuilder without an external pdf tool
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 3 months ago
We have pdf files getting created from the blob data that we receive from a API call, we want to print these PDFs without any user interface immediately after receiving data from API.
These can be. Achieved using shell execute/ batch file using exte...
Create a powerbuilder .dll (64 bit) with exposed classes and methods
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- Mattia Matiz replied 3 months ago
Hi everyone, as the title says, I'd like to know if there's a way to create a Powerbuilder registrable .dll with exposed classes and methods and being able to reuse themin a Java environment.We would use the .dll to generate PDFs through powerbuilder...
Hi all,
My customer reported an issue today with merging dw's and pdf's. In the main window, he opens a salesorder with 100 workorders, then selects the Merge Each radio button and clicks Merge on the toolbar. The merge function loops through each...
Hello,
I want to attach an existing XML-file to an existing PDF.
At the moment I do the following and it works:
////////////////////////////////////////// PDFdocument lpdf_doc PDFattachment lpdf_attach lpdf_doc = CREATE PDFdocument lpdf_attach = ...
open PDF within a window
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 3 months ago
Hi all
PB 2022 R3 windows 10
Can anyone tell me how i can open a PDF file within a window in my application or the best way to view a pdf withing the application, i may be being a bit stupid but i am struggling
thanks in advance as always
An...
Looking for a solution of printing from PowerBuilder set of documents one after one (syncronic) the documents are in filesystem library.
I have docs from varios types, (Ex. docx, jpeg and pdf).
I succesfully print docx and jpeg via OLE to WORD, bu...
Is there a way to print a PDF from my PB app?
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- Last updated 5 months ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 5 months ago
Me again!
Is there a way to print a pdf document within my app? Right now I can do it, but it uses the shell command...
lb_printed = lnv_runandwait.ShellRun( as_directory + as_filename, "print", 0)
The shell command will use the windows default PD...
How PB guess what's custom font?
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- How-to
- Last updated 5 months ago
- John Fauss replied 5 months ago
Hi
According to the documentation
https://docs.appeon.com/pb2022/pbug/Saving_data_in_an_external_file.html#Saving_as_PDF_using_PDFlib
PB can embed custom fonts into generated PDF file.
Which fonts are considered as 'custom'? If I check this field...
PDF export not complete
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- Advice
- Last updated 6 months ago
- Eric Verhorstert replied 6 months ago
Powerbuilder cloudpro edition Version 2022 R3 build 3289
Attached is part of a print screen. If we export the data window to PDF, the text 1083AKMR disappears. Other than this the export is correct.
If we do not rotate the computed field the exp...
Powerbuilder Report with multiple Nested DWs - Save As PDF - Line Break Issue
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- Last updated 6 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 6 months ago
Hello,
We're trying to migrate our PB2021 App to PB2022. I'm noticing an issue while saving a Composite Report with multiple Nested DWs as a PDF. With PB2021, there was a line break coming after a DW with Grouped Rows with Summary while with PB 2022...
Does powerbuilder2022 support exporting PDF to TXT file, or is there an improvement plan in the future?...
How to read keywords from a PDF ?
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- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 7 months ago
Hello,
I'm using PowerBuilder 2022 build 1892.
I generate a PDF using the code below :
PDFDocument lpdf_doc
long ll_return, ll_return1
lpdf_doc = Create PDFDocument
dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Export.PDF.Method = NativePDF! ")
dw_1.modify("Dat...
How to convert jpeg to pdf and wait until finished in calling script ?
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- Last updated 9 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 9 months ago
Hi
I am developing functinality to convert .jpg to pdf using webbrowser to open the file and save as pdf.
The problem is make script creating the web browser windows wait until the browser is finished opening the file save the pdf.
the webbrowser ...
Issue with barcodes using pdfdocument
- Issue
- Last updated 9 months ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 9 months ago
Hello all,
We're using PB 2022 R2 build 2828. We have a datawindow with a couple of barcodes. Code39Two font. The font is assigned to the column on the datawindow. Using the pdfdocument doesn't seem to pick up the barcode font.
Anyone else run into...
I'm currently using Powerbuilder Version 2022 Build 1878 64-bit and the AcroExchApp/AcroExchPDDOC.
I can open the XFA pdf files and *read* the values, but I can not change the value in the JS Object. I'd like to figure out how or find another way to...
PDF Builder - Table of Contents
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Dennis Eisler replied 11 months ago
Good morning/evening. I am trying to use the new PB2022R2 PDF Builder feature to add page numbers and a table of contents to a new PDF document that I generate. The documentation that describes the feature (PDF Builder enhancements - - What's New (ap...
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