Today I needed to create a very big test dataset with associated PDFs. Rather than messing with PDF printers, which are slow even when they work, I hacked this up to create a very simple PDF file completely programmatically - just pass it the required filename and the text you want in it.
Note that if you open in Acrobat Reader it will convert it to the current format and prompt to save when you close it, but it's still a valid PDF even if you don't. * -- This makes a very simple PDF file programmatically without faffing with PDF printers. * -- See http://www.jpedal.org/PDFblog/2010/10/make-your-own-pdf-file-part-4-hello-world-pdf/ Lparameters lcOutFile, lcText Local llOk llOk = .t. Try lnFontSize = 12 lnLeft = 0 lnTop = 720 Set Textmerge on noshow Set Textmerge Delimiters To "#|","|#" Set Textmerge to (lcOutfile) \\%PDF-1.4 \1 0 obj <</Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R>> \endobj \2 0 obj <</Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1>> \endobj \3 0 obj<</Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /Resources 4 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 500 800] /Contents 6 0 R>> \endobj \4 0 obj<</Font <</F1 5 0 R>>>> \endobj \5 0 obj<</Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /BaseFont /Helvetica>> \endobj \6 0 obj \<</Length 44>> \stream \BT /F1 #|lnFontSize|# Tf #|lnLeft|# #|lnTop|# Td (#|lcText|#)Tj ET \endstream \endobj \xref \0 7 \0000000000 65535 f \0000000009 00000 n \0000000056 00000 n \0000000111 00000 n \0000000212 00000 n \0000000250 00000 n \0000000317 00000 n \trailer <</Size 7/Root 1 0 R>> \startxref \406 \%%EOF Set Textmerge off Set textmerge to Catch llOk = .f. Finally Set Textmerge delimiters to EndTry Return llOk -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1340721459.9395.140661094238649.274da...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
