This is not really what this thread is about but is related a little. In the past there were threads about the problem of making a
manual from html help. I have a reference for tool I just started using. The name is "Help & Manual". This thing is great. With one
set of source, it will generate a chm, html for your web site and pdf for your printed manual as well as MS Word version. Looks
good too. You can see a first pass here:
http://www.stratfordsoftware.com/help for the html help and
http://www.stratfordsoftware.com/help/stratford.pdf for the print-able manual.
Both of these came from the exact same source code. This is not a finished version at all, but shows the power of the product. This
manual was in hundreds of html files in frontpage with no reasonable way to ever get a usable pdf printed verson. I could, of
course, print the html files, but that would never get a usable manual with table of contents, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lee" <bobl at 1amsoftware .D.O.T com>
To: <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: PDF/DOC Solutions
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 .D.O.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 .D.O.T com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On
> Behalf Of Bob Lee
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:30 PM
> To: profox at leafe .D.O.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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