VFP to Pdf writing is really quite simple as the actual file type of pdf is
very close to the postscript file format, and you already have postscript
file formatter on your computer.. (any postscript printer driver will work)
Then the process is to convert the .ps file to a pdf file, which can be done
using ghostscript, and all of this can be scripted together using VFP .
Actually I wrote such a thing, and you can get it here.
www.1amsoftware.com
The second part, reading in and extracting data from a pdf file, Sorry I can
be of much help, I did some hacking myself trying this, and gave up..
Maybe someone else didnt give up..
Bob Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lew" <lew /at/ clsystems .DO.T com>
To: <profoxtech@leafe.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: PDF/DOC Solutions
> Hi Bob:
> I need to create pdf's and/or doc's as report output, plus
> extract text from existing pdf's & doc's.
> -Lew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces /at/ leafe .DO.T com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On
> Behalf Of Bob Lee
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:30 PM
> To: profox /at/ leafe .DO.T com
> Subject: Re: PDF/DOC Solutions
>
>
> What is it you are trying to acheive. ?
> Bob Lee
>
>
> > I'd like to know the list's current 3rd party product preferences (&
> > reasons) for generating and reading .pdf's and .doc's. Reading them
> back
> > & parsing them into VFP is of particular interest.
> > -Lew
> >
> >
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