pdf or printer selection for each page

rbuser

I generate the month invoices all with the same report (it can be several
pages) and for some customers I must send invoce trought email e not
stardard mail.
So half page of this report will be printed to selected printer and the
other will be saved to pdf file and after send via outlook.

How can I do this automatic selection during printing ? (i've a switch that
tell to me if this page must be pdf or printed)

I've RB 7.02 and TExtraDevices.

thanks

nardmoseley

Check out demo 124 (dm0124.pas) in RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr. It shows
how to print a list of pages.

Each device (PDF, Printer) can have its own list of pages that it request be
generated.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

perfect !

only another question : i need to create a different pdf file for each
page. how can i do ?

thanks a lot

nardmoseley

You can use the Report.PrintToDevices method to print to any number of
devices simultaneously. Each device can each request which page(s) its need
to receive.

Therefore, you need to create a separate TppPDFDevice instance for each file
that you need to generate. Configure the device to request the appropriate
page(s) and connect it to the report.Publisher. Then call PrintToDevices.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

but before i need to know how many pages i have and which of them i must
print....
so i can create a "hidden" device to generate pages a first time , and after
this re-generate to pdf device to save pdf extrernal file.
it is right ?

how "hidden" device can i use ?

nardmoseley

Try this...

- set Report.CachePages to True
- create a TppDevice and connect to the report's publisher
- call PrintToDevices

This will generate all pages and the report's publisher will cache them
internally. TppDevice will not do anything (it is the ancestor of all
Devices and does not generate any ouput).

- free the TppDevice

Create the PDFDevices, connect to report's publisher and call PrintToDevices
again


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com