One of my enhancement requests is to have the pdf reader tab like the blob viewer for images. That would be cool!! Also, if they had a db pdf like db image then it would display automatically. Dan Goldberg
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Frederick Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:28 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Saving PDFs to Database I am trying to automatically save PDFs to a database table as part of the print option. Converting reports to uneditable PDFs (Primo, RBase, and Acrobat) all load to a directory. There will eventually be thousands of these PDF reports and I would rather place these in a Report table that meets HIPAA access requirements, simplifies backup, and (I hope) would make retrieval easy with a simple menu/scroll/ID# system. Looked at other formats, PDF's method of locking the format and data seems to be what I need. 1. The manual toolbar loading process works, but automating would be far simpler and eliminates many problems. How to automatically load the PDF has got me stumped right now. 2. Once the PDF is in the table (by whatever means) I can get it and print it. The R:Base PDF reader works great for directory based PDFs. Reading the PDF in the table will likely be the next issue. Is there a simpler way to do this? Tom Frederick Elm City Center 1314 W Walnut Jacksonville, IL 62650 Off - 217-245-9504 Fax - 217-245-2350 Email - [email protected] Web - www.elmcity.org
