After doing some research on Adobe's web site I found the answers to
being able to print rbase reports using acrobat 5.0's Distiller. Now
with The glorious (Razzak is getting contagious) RBase 6.5++ I can
print our company's invoices without any user interaction to a specific
directory. Also with 2 other programs.. Postie (excellent program!) for
email and Zetafax for faxing, we can now move towards a more paperless
environment, something none of the current software packages for my
industry currently offers. Now with the price of postage going up, it
makes it even more attractive. Anyway I wanted to post the directions
for automating Acrobat 5.0 on Win2K in case anyone else is looking for
the information, the Adobe website was really unorganized and hard to
find this information.
After installing Acrobat 5.0, the distiller printer will be added to the
printers folder.
open the printers folder.. Right click on the distiller printer and open
printer preferences
Click the Adobe PDF settings tab
Un-check the defaults of the following 3,
- View result in acrobat
- Prompt for the PDF filename
- Ask to replace existing PDF file
Then Click Apply and close the window
Now by default all pdf output will goto the Current users Desktop
(..\documents & settings\{user}\desktop) To change the default path
Right click the distiller printer and click on properties
Click on the ports tab
You will see the port for the distiller with the default directory..
which can not be changed.. so simply click add port.. double click on
PDF port, and select the default directory for your PDF output.
Back in the ports window.. check off the new port as the default port
(you can also delete the old one if you want)
Now from RBase you can print reports directly to that folder after
changing printers to distiller and simply out pri..
I am still beta testing the ZetaFax software for faxing these reports..
but unfortunately it does not take direct PDF attachments, I actually
have to convert it to a TIFF file first... I know we talked about this
before.. but has anyone come across any new or better Faxing software
that would allow you to send batches of files with attachments from
RBase and then send them out ?
-- Frank
Frank Conroy -- Systems Network Administrator
F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc. -- Boston, MA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 617-790-3093
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