Those are tiny files.I just finished running a report that prints between 2 and 3 photos per page along with other information. The report is 417 pages long and it takes over one hour to print (two-sided) on a brand new Ricoh Color network printer. Rather than providing the client several sets of the report (expensive), I thought it might be better to give them a CD with a PDF file of the report. I tried printing to a PDF file and after the files was about 1.2 GB I got the "out of bounds index" error message and the files was not even usable. I tried sending the first 200 pages to a PDF file and it completed the job except I printed on the first 198 pages (???). I run a second batch for pages 199- 417 and it completed the job correctly. The files ended up being 873 MB and 960 MB.which means that a CD will not hold all the files and the client does not have a DVD reader. My solution is to provide them with a quick and dirty compiled photo viewer that they can use to look at app. 1,000 photos which take 350 MB.I believe I can fit that and the compiled application in one CD.
Javier, Javier Valencia 913-915-3137 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Priting a whole buncha reports - PDF results I made quick changes to my program to have all my data in one temp table and variables preset. Changed my report to have a break on the CustID with a page feed. I then printed an 1820-page PDF file. I did it in both 7.5 and 7.6. Compression ON: 4.1 MB (same 7.5 and 7.6) Compression OFF: 19.4 MB (7.5) and 18.5 MB (7.6) All the files look okay. Took 2.5 minutes to run, all versions, all compressions. I was surprised that when I did not specify any compression options, it ran with compression on. I would have thought that OFF was the default; not sure then why you would set it to OFF. The only glitch I had was in 7.6. I tested the 7.5 report first. Then in 7.6 I brought up the 7.5 report, made a simple change so I could save another version in 7.6 and run that one. Ran it to the PDF once, ran just fine. Changed my compression parameter in the Print statement and ran it again and I got some error about my report definition, even though I hadn't gone back into the report (wish I had kept the error message...). I couldn't bring the report up again in the designer; unloaded and upload the database, reboot, still can't get into the designer. Brought up the 7.5 version again, made another 7.6 version of the report and ran it 4 times without a problem. Paul might test for me printing 1820 pages of individual reports. He has a network laser with an intermittent streaking problem that he needs to test -- so he offered his services! Karen
