We do everything electronically. So each pdf is emailed automatically to the 
customer. The customer table has their email address stored in it.

Dan Goldberg

From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 9:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Is there a limit to PDF printing?

That's another terrific idea, I could set up a scheduled task to run the 
program once a month in the middle of the night, great idea.   I would have to 
have the user type in all the criteria and store it in a lookup table (there's 
a few options, like optional messages at the bottom, etc).    I kinda like the 
idea of individual PDFs too, named with the Customer ID so it would be easy to 
link to from a customer form.

Karen



-----Original Message-----
From: jan johansen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Tue, Apr 30, 2019 11:30 am
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Is there a limit to PDF printing?
Karen,

My recommendation is the individual statements. We print statements to PDF's 
and they are stored on the server so we can always go back for them.

Also the statement program runs on the server at about 2AM on the last day of 
the month. So much faster
than the user pressing a "print statement" button.

Jan




From: "'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:16:51 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Is there a limit to PDF printing?

I have an app that prints thousands of statements a month, and the program 
hasn't changed much since 6.5 days.  Each statement is calculated one at a time 
and printed one at a time.

Most of the time the computer will lock up during the printing, which I assume 
is because RBase is printing so fast to the spooler, and the 
network/spooler/printer simply cannot keep up with the number of files waiting 
to print, and at some point RBase can no longer send jobs to the print queue. 
Luckily I've programmed it so that the user can come back in and easily 
continue where it left off, but it's a pain to have to do that.  We've tried 
building in "waits" after so many statements print, but the program ended up 
taking like 6 hrs to run!

And yes, believe it or not, they are mailing the statements to their customers 
and have no wish to email them.

So I'm thinking of utilizing PDFs instead, and I have the choice of generating 
1000s of individual PDFs (where the user can then highlight multiple PDFs, 
right-click, "print" at their own schedule), or generating one huge multi-1000s 
page PDF.

I have never created that big of a PDF.   Is there a reasonable limit to the 
#pages RBase can print to a PDF file?   Can someone tell me the largest PDF 
file they've ever generated?

Thanks!    Or if you have other suggestions.....

Karen


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