Mike - I agree with you - it's as easy as changing your printer to Adobe and printing in R:BASE.
The process I will be presenting is producing multiple PDF in R:BASE with no user intervention, being able to create the pdf files then renaming them behind the scenes, and then attaching them to emails automatically, too. For example, my client wants to produce payroll proofing reports for all his employees and email them to them as attachments - with no user intervention - from one R:BASE menu choice. Sami ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramsour Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:34 PM Subject: RE: Acrobat 5.0, Win2K, & RB6.5++, Look Ma no Hands ! > Sami: > > I started using Distiller about a month ago and I can tell you as far as > getting an R:Base report created as a PDF file nothing could be simpler. It > is really smooth. You simply do: > > 1. PRNSETUP 'Acrobat Distiller' > 2. OUTPUT PRINT > 3. PRINT report_name > 4. OUTPUT SCREEN > > and you have a PDF file with the same name as the report along with the .pdf > extension. The output is beautiful. There's a switch or two in Distiller > that allows you to either prompt for a file name or not as well as a couple > of other options. I am now printing several reports each morning > automatically out of R:Base to Acrobat files while I'm still home in bed. > > There's no need to twiddle with the registry at all. Just install the > software and away you go. It's great stuff! > > Thanks -- Mike Ramsour > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sami Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Acrobat 5.0, Win2K, & RB6.5++, Look Ma no Hands ! > > > > > > > Frank - > > This is really interesting - you have just presented a totally different > method of automating Adobe output from R:BASE than I was going to present at > the developers' conference! I've used Razzak's method of configuring the > Acrobat PDFWriter rather than the Distiller - I'll have to test out the > differences and see if I can see some benefits one way or another. > > Did you have a particular reason you chose to configure the Distiller vs. > the PDFWriter? > > Thanks, > Sami > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Sami Aaron > Software Management Specialists > 19312 W 63rd Terr > Shawnee KS 66218 > 913-915-1971 > http://www.softwaremgmt.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Betaserver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rbase List Server (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:27 AM > Subject: Acrobat 5.0, Win2K, & RB6.5++, Look Ma no Hands ! > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > > > > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
