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Subject: Re: PDF/DOC Solutions
Author: Pete Theisen
Posted: 2003/08/31 15:15:00
 
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Hi Bob!

1amsoftware. Is that the time you start work, the time you finish or the
time when you are most productive?

Regards,

Pete

At 02:51 PM 8/31/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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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