Dear Norman Yes, I have dealt with parsing styled text, it is a REAL pain but nowhere near the pain of writing a PDF writer from scratch! Toby's stuff looks great, a good starting point, at least we can write a styled text parser. It won't be simple but at least it will be a challenge.
Thanks to all on the list. Shame the PDF Lib is SO expensive, fine if you want it on a Server but very very expensive if you want to distribute with application. So few options out there for RB and PDF :-( Thanks again, M@ Matt >> Dear all >> >> I'm stuck. We are in the last phases of a small project for school >> kids: saves off their project as a PDF. Unfortunately I can't >> complete the last step, the PDF export. >> >> 01 I've tried Asher's PDF Classes, they are great except his classes >> can't parse and paginate styled EditField text (anyone heard from >> Asher lately? I've been trying to get a hold of him). >> >> 02 I've tried iSEDquickPDF but it is Windows only (their website: >> "www.isedquickpdf.com will return soon!") >> >> 03 I've gone down Monkeybread path using the excellent PDFLib but >> licensing for this is crippling (US$10K per platform, fine if you are >> IBM or Microsoft). >> >> I read somewhere there was some source code for PDF'ing, however it >> no longer seems to be available. Does anyone have this so I'm not >> starting out from scratch? Even something simple. I could at least >> fix the code to suit my needs. >> >> Many thanks, this has been going on for months and from looking rosy, >> our project is now in jeopardy. > > Dealing with Styled Text is a pain regardless > > I'm certain Ashers stuff will deal with it at least in teh very > latest releases (see PDFStyledText Class) > > Toby Rush has some PDF classes http://www.tobyrush.com/software/ > rbclasses/realbasicpdf.html > > If you do not need to be cross platfom then maybe the built in OS X > PDF functionality via MBS would work ? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
