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Creating PDFs

william chanwilliam chan Posts: 1,326
edited 2008-10-13 16:00 in General Discussion
Hi Anybody,

Is there an open source DLL that allows your application program to call to create a PDF file from it's print output (and pass to it the file name as well)?

Thanks.

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  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2008-10-13 07:46
    I use PrimoPDF (it's free):

    www.primopdf.com/

    Leon

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  • stamptrolstamptrol Posts: 1,731
    edited 2008-10-13 12:15
    DoPDF also works perfectly with everything from CAD drawings to simple text...also free.

    http://www.dopdf.com/

    Cheers,

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  • william chanwilliam chan Posts: 1,326
    edited 2008-10-13 12:33
    My application can create hundreds of print jobs at one go.
    So i need to create hundreds of PDF files in one go, with the filenames being generated instead of being keyed in at a prompt,
    how do I do that?

    Thanks for your replies.

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  • hippyhippy Posts: 1,981
    edited 2008-10-13 12:46
    @ William : "Programmatically" would seem to be the answer there. It all depends upon where the data for each comes from, how you determine the filenames. You could write a program to do that, you may be able to use scripting.

    Some detail on what you are actually trying to achieve and with what may elicit more specific solutions.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2008-10-13 16:00
    I used to use PrimoPDF a lot. But I began to notice that PDFs created with it were not readable on a Mac for some reason, so I went back to Adobe's Acrobat Distiller (not free).

    -Phil
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