Paul,
Asher's PDF Classes are simple enough that our upcoming RealeWriter
3.0 provides output tuned to US Letter and A4 print and PDF and we
use the same core code to draw each (for each of the many printed
report formats we support). We actually just send picture to the
printer and PDF classes to be blitted, having rendered them in the
app. However, the PDF Classes support all the text things you'd want
like embedded fonts, etc.
I think our Mac OS X users could have managed to save PDFs through
the print dialog. And we could have recommended that our Windows
users get something like DeskPDF. However, having the capability
built into the app actually opened up another possibility for us, and
that was automated sharing of the PDFs on our community website. It's
pretty freakin awesome and I can't wait for the it to go public beta
in the next couple weeks.
If I were in charge of an IDE company like RS, I would snatch Asher
up ASAP and get him developing these kinds of frameworks. He's a
talented kid and he's got a good sense of making useful APIs.
-Brad
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Brad Hutchings
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Paul Rehill wrote:
Asher
I thought I should have a quick look at your documentation but I can't
open your documentation xhtml files. I tried associating the files
with Internet Explorer on Windows but that didn't work.
How simple are the pdf classes? As simple as writing to a graphics
object or more complicated?
I just licensed DeskPDF which is a useful program that is able to
print virtually any windows application output to a PDF file through
the standard windows print dialog window but it would be good to
integrate PDF within an RB application.
Regards
Paul
Paul Rehill
mathsteacher.com.au
RB 5.5.5 Mac Pro, Mac OS 10.3.6
RB 5.5.5 Win Standard, Win XP SP2
Plugins used: MBS
RealBasic resources: RB Developer, Matt Neuburg's RB book
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