Bill - I see that you have two options:
1. Get R:Mail 2. Check the documentation from my presentation at this year's conference. There are steps to have the users select the Adobe Distiller instead of the Writer, and you can change those settings for the default file name via the printer options, rather than in the registry. Sami ----------------------------------------------------------- Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 19312 W 63rd Terr Shawnee KS 66218 913-915-1971 http://www.softwaremgmt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Eyring To: Rbase Mail List (E-mail) Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: E-Mail PDF Attachment Hello All, I am having a problem in creating a pdf attachment for e-mail when there are multiple records involved in the report. We use Outlook for e-mail. There is no problem as far as e-mailing single record reports, everything works as it should with the named pdf file automatically attaching to the e-mail. Here is the situation: I search a table using menu driven criteria to determine which records I want include in a pdf report to e-mail to a contact, my search selecting the records I want. Through menu choices, the user must select the Acrobat PDFWriter as the default printer in order to produce the e-mail attachment. Setting the directory destination for the Pdf report is also not a problem. The problem arises when the user has to name the destination file. In my example here, there are 7 records that match my search criteria and therefore will produce a 7 page report . Here are the id numbers of the records selected; 2662,4048,4129,4212,5389,6052 and 7923. PdfWriter prompts the user for a file name. Lets say the name of the file is CarWash. The file CARWASH.PDF is created. My launch command would be: launch .vmailto The text variable vmailto = MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Subject=Your comp request from Bill Eyring, Michael Haberman Associates, Inc.&"C:\NewComm\CARWASH.PDF" This would launch perfectly if I could get the file name from pdfwriter into my command. I know I can prompt the user for a file name, but I don't want the user to be asked twice for a file name, once by my program and once by Acrobat PDFWriter. I do not want to get involved in changing the registry settings for Acrobat, since I would have a whole network of 20 machines to change. What I would like to do is just get the inputted file name value from Acrobat PdfWriter and insert it into my program. I am using the latest release of Rbase for Windows and runs on Windows 2000 Professional computers and a Windows 2000 server. Does anyone have a suggestion ? Your help is greatly appreciated. Bill Eyring Director of Information Systems Michael Haberman Associates, Inc. 125 Front Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 516-739-8080 Rbase Developer ================================================ 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/
