Karen
If you already have the information in R:Base then ask for a date range and then print the report to PDF base on the date range. The report could break on dates. Always print the PDF to a the local PC then open the PDF. If you want to create and store PDF documents then I would say put the name of the documents into a R:Base table with date created and customer id number. This way you could loop the table again based on a date range Buddy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:17 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing a bunch of PDF files In my neverending attempt to get a client to upgrade to 7.6, I'm throwing all kinds of "but if you did you could do this..." at them. I had another idea but want to see how it could be done. I'm thinking of changing their monthy statement program so that rather than printing right away it prints to PDF files, and then they can print out in chunks whenever they want plus obviously have history documents. If I print to one big PDF file, then they can bring up the file and print a page range. But I'm worried the file might be huge and they would have trouble searching for a client. If instead they want individual PDF files, how would they be able to print say 50 of them at once? I can see several ways of doing it: 1. They could bring up Adobe, easily highlight and open 50 documents. Is there a menu option to say "print all documents"? I can't find it. 2. I could write a program in RBase to bring up a menu of PDF files to choose from. Then what? Write a batch file that launches Adobe with the print parameters, ie 50 different command lines? 3. I could define an RBase report with some kind of control to display the PDF file? This might be a problem if the address is meant to fit in a window envelope and the report would change the size of the PDF file displayed. Any other ideas? Karen
