I have the following requirement:
Print a salary receipt to a company form, previously generated as a pdf file
The application calculates the monthly salaries of the company's personel
and issues a salary receipt for each employee.
Now they print the receipt to a preprinted form with te company logo and
the Treasurer's signature
But they want to have the blank form, with the logo and static text,
including the officer's signature on the form, to be filled with the salary
data, employee name, deductions, etc and print the whole on a blank sheet
by a laser printer.
In this way the company will save the cost of having preprinted forms. They
will simply use a letter size sheet to print each receipt
What do you suggest, please?
What about FoxyPreviewer, or any other software?
Perhaps ask the printing company to scan a blank form and produce a pdf
file, or another image file?
Please advise
Thank you
Rafael Copquin
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You could scan the blank form and insert the saved image into a blank report design and then overlay the parts of the form that need to be completed with the usual report controls
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I have the following requirement:
Print a salary receipt to a company form, previously generated as a pdf file
The application calculates the monthly salaries of the company's personel and issues a salary receipt for each employee.
Now they print the receipt to a preprinted form with te company logo and the Treasurer's signature But they want to have the blank form, with the logo and static text, including the officer's signature on the form, to be filled with the salary data, employee name, deductions, etc and print the whole on a blank sheet by a laser printer.
In this way the company will save the cost of having preprinted forms. They will simply use a letter size sheet to print each receipt
What do you suggest, please?
What about FoxyPreviewer, or any other software?
Perhaps ask the printing company to scan a blank form and produce a pdf file, or another image file?
Please advise
Thank you
Rafael Copquin
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Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required, reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or whatever?
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Which is exactly what we have done for our HMRC P60s
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Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required, reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or whatever?
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Check out freeware virtual PDF printers? Even if you needed to pay for
commercial use, they were cheap.
https://www.google.com/search?q=freeware+pdf+printer
In Window$ 10, there is a Microsoft Print To PDF in Printers and
Scanners section.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Rafael Copquin
<rafael.copquin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following requirement:
>
> Print a salary receipt to a company form, previously generated as a pdf file
>
> The application calculates the monthly salaries of the company's personel
> and issues a salary receipt for each employee.
> Now they print the receipt to a preprinted form with te company logo and
> the Treasurer's signature
> But they want to have the blank form, with the logo and static text,
> including the officer's signature on the form, to be filled with the salary
> data, employee name, deductions, etc and print the whole on a blank sheet
> by a laser printer.
> In this way the company will save the cost of having preprinted forms. They
> will simply use a letter size sheet to print each receipt
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Perhaps I was not very clear.
I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image.
I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser
printer
I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an
image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it fit
in the page with the right shape.
Rafael
El vie., 14 sept. 2018 a las 6:01, Alan Bourke (<alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>)
escribió:
> Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP
> report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required,
> reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or
> whatever?
>
> --
> Alan Bourke
> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>
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On 14/09/2018 15:53, Rafael Copquin wrote:
> Perhaps I was not very clear.
>
> I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image.
> I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser
> printer
>
> I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an
> image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it fit
> in the page with the right shape.
>
Like Alan suggested I think the easiest solution is to just create it
using the VFP report writer. Put all the words, lines, boxes etc using
the normal report writer tools and anything graphics like that you can't
create, put that in as a JPG or GIF. I have done that on loads of
reports here. You may be able to do the whole page as a watermark or
something like that and pretty sure there are people on the forum who
have done a full page watermark in VFP, but I'm sure the normal report
is easier.
Just my .02
Peter
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If you can get the PDF as a fillable PDF form you can then use PDFtk to
fill the form from VFP.
Frank.
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On 14/09/2018 10:53 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote:
> Perhaps I was not very clear.
>
> I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image.
> I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser
> printer
>
> I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an
> image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it fit
> in the page with the right shape.
>
> Rafael
>
>
> El vie., 14 sept. 2018 a las 6:01, Alan Bourke (<alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>)
> escribió:
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP
>> report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required,
>> reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or
>> whatever?
>>
>> --
>> Alan Bourke
>> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>>
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The advice is pretty good, "don't do this unless you have to."
My clients have shipped a quarter-million PDFs with data merged from a
database app. so I've given this a bit of thought.
Using an image as a background is the worst possible solution short of
writing out the receipts by hand and postal-mailing them.
The image is large, it's usually poorly focused, it's rarely well-aligned
and it will look like poo when printed at the other end.
Rather than mix analog (the scanned image) and digital content, you can use
the VFP report writer, original hi-res logos, and a PDF printer to put out
clean text and high-resolution graphics.
Or you could redesign the form in another tool, like Word or LibreOffice or
Draw and convert it to a data form with CutePDF Professional and merge data
into the PDF with Adobe's (expensive) tools or something like pdftk (free
but more complex). That's a LOT more work, and I don't recommend it, unless
there's some reason you can't use VFP and/or XFRX or Foxy. ( I had to go
this way because app was PHP, not Fox)
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:53 AM Rafael Copquin <rafael.copquin@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Perhaps I was not very clear.
>
> I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image.
> I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser
> printer
>
> I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an
> image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it fit
> in the page with the right shape.
>
> Rafael
>
>
> El vie., 14 sept. 2018 a las 6:01, Alan Bourke (<alanpbourke@fastmail.fm>)
> escribió:
>
> > Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP
> > report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required,
> > reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or
> > whatever?
> >
> > --
> > Alan Bourke
> > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
> >
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In Document Management systems this is given. You set the shell that holds
the text objects in place on top of the pdf file. You then pass the data
to this program and it pumps out a mail merge like operation. There are a
few in open source as a guess. My last project to do this created a label
for cases that the grand jury approved for prosecution. The label had
columns for defendant's info as well as other court data. The PDF was the
seal for the court as well as labels for data.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:04 AM Peter Cushing <pcushing@whisperingsmith.com>
wrote:
> On 14/09/2018 15:53, Rafael Copquin wrote:
> > Perhaps I was not very clear.
> >
> > I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image.
> > I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser
> > printer
> >
> > I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as
> an
> > image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me to make it
> fit
> > in the page with the right shape.
> >
> Like Alan suggested I think the easiest solution is to just create it
> using the VFP report writer. Put all the words, lines, boxes etc using
> the normal report writer tools and anything graphics like that you can't
> create, put that in as a JPG or GIF. I have done that on loads of
> reports here. You may be able to do the whole page as a watermark or
> something like that and pretty sure there are people on the forum who
> have done a full page watermark in VFP, but I'm sure the normal report
> is easier.
>
> Just my .02
>
> Peter
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