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edited December 2005 in End User
Hello all,

Is there a way to display PDF files within a report ?

I can do TIFF etc etc using GraphicEx. trouble is I now have a load of image
files that have been exported to PDF!!!

Cheers in advance

Mark

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  • edited December 2005
    Hi Mark,

    To our knowledge there are no third party components that allow you to view
    a PDF inside a report. One option might be to convert your PDF to rich text
    and display it that way using a TppRichText component.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited December 2005
    Hello,

    as I understand you right, you want to view a pdf by vcl to bind it in your
    report application?

    I found two products viewing PDF.

    1.is from Gnostice, http://www.gnostice.com/PDFtoolkit.asp as a item of
    their toolkit. I have looked at this product. It worked is fast, but
    actually could not handle all font types (like adobe). Also they have some
    problems with justiffication and with som etypes of invers commands. But it
    is fast and small and it seems that the company will enhance the
    compatibility.

    2. is from wptools, http://www.wpcubed.com/products/pdfviewer/index.htm,
    perhaps it display better.

    But both of them are no replacement for the Acrobat Reader, which is slow,
    and a big set of DLLs but displays most of the pdfs in the correct manner.
    But also Acrobat as many display problems on complex documents.

    Chris
    www.eulanda.de



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