Discussions tagged PDF
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PB 2022 B 2819, Application run as a Windows Service
When the control hits the command PrintGetPrinter(), it seems the application re-starts from the beginning. In my windows service application, I need to set the printer to another printe...
Export PDF from datawindow with content hyperlinks
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
In a datawindow object it is possible to insert an object of type hyperlink, which when exported to Pdf, hyperlinks also work. ...
Hi all - looking for some advice ...
We are using a customized version of the TE Edit Control (Sub Systems v20) and are looking for the best way to save the output to a PDF. We had been saving simply by using a PDF print driver, but we'd like to get...
Hi,
can I set "Packaging custom font in the generated PDF file" Application parameter from code for a specific datawindow?
There's application variable nativepdfincludecustomfont but it's inaccessible from PowerScript.
I can't embed fonts to all p...
Datawindow SaveAs PDF not generating all pages
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Timothy Beck replied 1 month ago
Hi!
I've created a datawindow that gets data from a Microsoft Access Database to generate a contract. In preview, it shows all the content properly except the page number. When I print to PDF or Save As PDF, I only see page 1 and 2 out of 4. Any i...
How to open PrintDialog of WebBrowser-Control?
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- Last updated 3 months ago
- Rob Stevens replied 1 month ago
Hi all,
we are using WebBrowser-Control to show PDF. That works very well. Also, the icons/controls of the PDF are showing up, hence the user is able to print/download the file. Now, I would like to open the print dialog, like clicking on the printe...
Digitally signing PDF files
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- Last updated 4 months ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 3 months ago
Hello,
About PB 2022 R2 Beta
We haven't installed PB 2022 R2 Beta. Would like to know
1. Can we digitally sign the PDFs in that version?2. If Yes, do we need pfx file to sign?
When we enquired here about pfx files, we came to know that pfx fil...
PDF File Sizes are huge
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- Advice
- Last updated 6 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 6 months ago
Hi Folk
I am successfully creating a PDF from a quite a complex nested report which contains images as well as text. Unfortunately, even if I reduce the size of the images down to the minimum some of the generated PDF's are over 50MB which is far to...
WebBrowser Control - Adobe Acrobat - Page Parameters Not Effective at Navigate()
- Issue
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 7 months ago
Adobe Acrobat Reader (DC) Version: 22.003.20314.0
PowerBuilder 2022 (1892)
Opening PDFs with a file URL is working just fine.However, no page parameters for configuring the Acrobat UI seem to be applied.
Anyone had success? Please advise.
Thank y...
DATAWINDOW CREATE PDF or PDFA with XML ATTACHMENT
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- How-to
- Last updated 9 months ago
- John Fauss replied 9 months ago
Dear Team,
Good morning..
Is there any option to create PDF and attach XML to pdf or pdfA/3.
FOR KSA, when we submit customer invoice, we need to attach xml file also to pdf and share to customer.
If we have this option , it will be more usefu...
generate pdf in powerbuilder 2021
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- Last updated 9 months ago
- Kim Berghall replied 9 months ago
hello friends, I have a project in powerbuilder that was originally in PB 12.5, this project was migrated to PB 2021, everything works fine but when generating a pdf from datawindow it generates a file with a weight of KB, I solved this by checking "...
I'm using PB2021 Build 1509.
I wish to view PDF files in a window (does not necessarily need to be a datawindow).
Can anyone provide me sample code for me to look at?
I have had limited success using an ole object inserting "Adobe Acrobat Browser ...
Any plan to introduce digital signing of PDF file(s) created
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- Misc
- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
Hello,
Need to sign the pdf file created through PowerBuilder. Is there any plan to introduce this feature in current/future versions of PowerBuilder?
If not, any suggested alternate ways to sign the document?
Happiness AlwaysBKR Sivaprakash
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Webbrowser PB 2022 PDF Pagemode
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Mark Montgomery replied 10 months ago
Hi
WebBrowser object in PB 2022 has a new feature. PDFs are shown in pagemode (list of pages on the left side). Is it possible to turn it off? In previous versions a limited subset of Adobe parameters was implemented. In the current version it seems...
Is there a way to fill a pdf form from PB?
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- Last updated 11 months ago
- Software Development replied 11 months ago
Hello All,
We recently migrated to PB22. We normally just print a datawindow as a pdf, works great. We also occasionally use a Word template with bookmarks. We open the Word template, do a bunch of inserts into the bookmarks, then save the doc.
Is ...
New PDF Builder (beta feature) in pb2022ga
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 11 months ago
Hi,
Anyone tried this new PB2022 PDF feature : New PDF Builder (beta feature) - - What's New (appeon.com)
Thanks Steen...
Server 2019 - Print to PDF crashes
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 year ago
We recently migrated a PB19 64-bit application from Server 2016 to Server 2019. On 2016 users could print to PDF without issue. Now, on Server 2019, when they print they can do 3 prints and then the program shuts down. The only error we are seeing is...
Re: Print using Ghostscript 9.56.1 in Windows Server 2012 R2 from PB 2019R3 Build 2703
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Sivaprakash BKR replied 1 year ago
Hello,
Current PB 2019 R3, 2703
Upgraded from PB 11.5
We upgraded one PB 11.5 application to PB 2019 R3. Everything is working fine except PDF printing using Ghostscript. That was the way we printed to a pdf file earlier.
Along with this up...
How to Watermark PDFs with ComPDFKit?
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Bernhard Giesriegl replied 10 months ago
Usage of Watermark
Watermarks is used to protect our documents. For instance, tell the readers who is the owner of the file, company name.
(You can tell me other methods not only the methods of ComPDFKit)
1. The ways to add text watermarks.
2. I...
PB2022 wau.. take a look at this: New PDFBuilder objects (beta feature)
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- Last updated 1 year ago
- Steen Jakobsen replied 1 year ago
I just now discovered the new feature in the public online docs.
I think AWESOME :-)
New PDFBuilder objects (beta feature) - - What's New (appeon.com)...
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