Thanks Mike
This is a good workaround, it would be real cool if that could
be displayed in a form instead of launching Adobe Reader.
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:34 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: storing PDF files in RBase
Ok. I tested it just to be sure and it behaves as advertised.
----- Original Message -----
From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: storing PDF files in RBase
--PDF Files are of type VARBIT and can be stored just like any other type
of Binary data..
--untested:
set var vFile VarBit = ['SomePathName\SomePDFFile.pdf']
insert into myVarBitTable ColFileName, ColVarBitValue Values
'SomePDFFile' , .vFile
--To Retrieve it:
Select ColVarBitValue into vFile ind Vin0 from myVarBitTable wher
ColFileName = 'SomePDFFile'
write .vFile to SomeDiskFileNameEndingInPDF.pdf
launch SomeDiskFileNameEndingInPDF.pdf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:10 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: storing PDF files in RBase
I have not figured it out yet. If you do please post your findings. I
have
requested it as an enhancement to RBTI.
Right now we just convert them to jpegs and store them.
I currently store over 3000 images in my database now as jpegs. It works
really good for me.
Maybe it will be implemented in Rbase Nitro(V-9)??
Dan Goldberg
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:33 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - storing PDF files in RBase
Hi
I am trying to make a database to store all sorts records. Some are
scanned
PDF files, some are PDF files peole send me and others are Word files,
BMP... and a few other file types.
So far I have not been able to figure out a way to store the PDF files
in
RBase. I know I can just save a link to the file and launch Adobe
Reader
but I am trying to store everything in the DB. There will only be
200-300
files total.
I keep thinking the answer us under my nose but can't seem to find it..
the answer that is not my nose.
Thanks for any suggestions
Marc
