appending pdf reports

rbuser

Is there a way to print to a pdf file, save it, and then re-open the
same file to add on another print job? i've used the adobe printer
driver before, but now we have the waler components. either way, i've
never appended to a pdf file before...

thanks in advance for any help.

Gary

digitalmetaphors

I'm not sure if you're printing both reports consecutively, so here goes.
There is one technique to print two reports as one by using a subreport for
each report. Then, they can both be placed inside of a single report
component and they will print on after another. See demo #51 in the main
report's demo project. It uses a section style subreport, because this type
of subreport always starts printing on a fresh page.

We have no expert knowledge of appending to a pdf. Perhaps, James Waler
could be of some assistance?


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. That makes sense, and it's what
James suggested as well.

In reading the manual and looking through the demos, I'm not seeing a viable
way to 'handle' event handlers that appear in the source for each individual
report.

It makes sense that if you define a data pipe and load the rtm file, you
have the guts of a report, but taking the individual event handlers out of
the .pas files and hooking them up to the subreport components seems
problematic.

Any recommendations?

Thanks again for the help,

Gary

digitalmetaphors

You'll need to rename the conflicting components in the subreports and also
their respective event handlers.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors