David - In my case, the problem was with the use of a dbCheckBox and with some Wingding fonts - when run thru the PDF creator, these fonts were not embedded so they wouldn't print correctly on another system - but they WOULD open properly - so maybe my issue is different from yours...
Have you tried the Sherlock Holmes method of creating just a small report with basic fields and text, then gradually adding on the additional items to see at what point it crashes? Sami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David M. Blocker Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:49 AM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Problems printing to PDF Sami Thanks for the answer: The report uses these fonts: Garamond 18 bold/italic Garamond 12 Bold/italic TImes New Roman 11 - bold, bold/italic, and regular Arial 10 regular Arial 11 Bold Times New Roman 12 Bold Are any of these "non-standard fonts" that are for example, not on your pc? David David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: Sami Aaron To: RBG7-L Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:48 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Problems printing to PDF David - I don't know if this is related to your problem, but .... The PDF creator in the current release of R:BASE does not embed fonts in the same way the Acrobat Distiller would do, so if you are using a font that is only installed on your computer, and you create a PDF document and send it to someone else who does not have the same font installed, you may get some strange font results. This feature is scheduled to be included in release 7.5. Is there anything special about the reports you are creating that might require special embedding? I know I've been the recipient of some of your PDF files that I couldn't open... Sami ------------------------------------------ Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 19312 W 63rd Terr Shawnee KS 66218 913-915-1971 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.softwaremgmt.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David M. Blocker Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:33 PM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Problems printing to PDF The following code prints a PDF file of an invoice in 7.1. The PDF file gets created, I can open the file successfully here with both Adobe 5.1 and 6.0 readers, and with Adobe Acrobat 6.0. However, Acrobat can't convert it to RTF giving this error: Bad PDF: could not read page structure (bad page contents) Many people I've sent these files to cannot open the file at all withe Adobe reader. The code: SET VAR vFileName = ('C:\Documents and Settings\David Blocker\My Documents\'+ +'DB'+.vCPID+'INV'+CTXT(.vINV#)+'.'+'PDF') SET VAR vOptions = ('Filename'&.vFileName) PRINT INVOICE WHERE CPID = .vCPID AND BILL IS NULL ORDER BY InvoiceDate T# + OPTION PDF|.vOptions It creates a file like "DBBmaINV66.PDF" Any suggestions? David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261
