Multiple recommendations of ImageMagick, so I'll give that one a whirl! Thanks!
How would you normally run it from within RBase? Dynamically write a batch file with the convert command and launch the bat file? Karen -----Original Message----- From: Javier Valencia <javier.valen...@vtgonline.com> To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jun 15, 2017 3:49 pm Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Embedding PDF in a report You can try ImageMagick… http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php to convert just run the command: convert file.pdf file.jpg and it should do it. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 14315 S. Twilight Ln. Olathe, KS 66062 Home: 913-397-9605 Office: 913-829-0888 Cell: 913-915-3137 From: karentellef via RBASE-L [mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 3:24 PM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Embedding PDF in a report No, I don't want to go non-automated. These will be shop guys at a shared computer printing out shop orders, so they want to press a button in RBase and have the PDF print on the backside of the shop order report. I might have to get someone there to perhaps create jpgs of the current PDFs and from now on scan into both formats Karen -----Original Message----- From: Javier Valencia <javier.valen...@vtgonline.com> To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jun 15, 2017 3:20 pm Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Embedding PDF in a report Karen, If you want a non-automated process, you can always use the Windows Sniping tool. Simply start the tool, select the area you want copied and then save the image as a JPG file. Pretty simple, I use it all the time to capture partial screen images. You can find the snipping tool under All Programs>>Accessories and then you can pin it permanently to the task bar. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 From: karentellef via RBASE-L [mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 12:49 PM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBASE-L] - Embedding PDF in a report Unless something has changed lately, I know you cannot place a PDF inside an RBase report, like you can a JPG. (I don't want a link, I want the actual one-page PDF) My notes say that the solution is to convert the PDF to a JPG, but I have no examples or recommendations of programs. Has anyone used a free, easy to install program to convert a PDF to a JPG? I am going to want to have RBase do the conversion "on the fly" when a report is requested with no intervention from the user. I am going to design a report with data info on the 1st page and the PDF file printed as the second page, duplexed. That's why I can't just print the PDF directly, following the report. Everyone has a full version of Adobe on their computers, so if there's a way to automatically launch Adobe with a conversion parameter that'd be great. Thanks for any help! Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
