Discussions tagged PDF
PDF File Sizes are huge
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- Advice
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 2 weeks 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...
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 3 months ago
- John Fauss replied 3 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
- Advice
- Last updated 3 months ago
- Kim Berghall replied 3 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 4 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 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 4 months ago
- Mark Montgomery replied 4 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?
- How-to
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Software Development replied 5 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 5 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 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 6 months ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 6 months 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 6 months ago
- Sivaprakash BKR replied 6 months 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?
- How-to
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Bernhard Giesriegl replied 4 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)
- Advice
- Last updated 7 months ago
- Steen Jakobsen replied 7 months 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)...
NativePDF_Valid=1 and portrait layout different behavior when deployed
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- How-to
- Last updated 11 months ago
- Pierre DETE replied 11 months ago
Hello,
I have a different behavior when I print with NativePDF a portrait output between IDE and deployed.
When I run from the IDE the output is fine in portrait, but when I run from a deployed application the layout is smaller, not in full page, l...
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to make PDF files generated by the datawindow SaveAs() method smaller. The following are the settings I'm using:
idw_to_save.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.NativePDF.UsePrintSpec = 'Yes'
idw_to_save.Object....
Exclude blocked datawindow objects from PDF
- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hello,
If you place a text object in your datawindow, like this:
And then place another text object on top of it so that it completely covers it, like this:
And then save the datawindow as PDF using the NativePDF method, the resulting PDF file...
Saving PDF using NativePDF! creates wrong size pages
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Daniel Kervabon replied 1 year ago
I've recently migrated one of my company's applications from PowerBuilder 2017 R3 to PowerBuilder 2021 (Professional Edition) and we want to eliminate the need for having Ghostscript installed to export PDF files. On the PDF Export tab of the Applica...
Hi,
we are currently facing an issue in the systems of one of our clients in which printing pdf documents, out of our application, consumes round about 5MB Memory per Print and doesnt free it.
Since our application is still 32-Bit and our customer ...
Hello,
I there a possibility to Save /Print the datastore to a pdf-file?
Thx...
Export an RTF to a PDFA-3A format
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- How-to
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 year ago
Hello,
I have some texts, composed dynamically inside of a RTE control.
Now one of the things we need to achieve is exporting the PDF, that later needs to be archived.
While exporting a PDF is as simple as this:
rte_1.SaveAs("file.pdf", PDF!, tru...
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