Reportbuilder 15 - PDF file is not opened after PrintToDevices

rbuser

Hi,

it seems that the setting

PDFSettings.OpenPDFFile

in a TppPDFDevice object is ignored. The PDF File will not open after printing
to the device.


Looking into the source of RB15 and RB 14.08 i noticed that you removed the
corresponding lines (around line 380) in unit ppPDFDevice, Method TppPDFDevice.EndJob:


if FPDFSettings.OpenPDFFile and FileExists(FileName) then
ShellExec(FileName, '', ExtractFilePath(FileName), SW_SHOWNORMAL);


Is there any reason for this change?


Thanks & Regards
Stefan Kirchhoff

rbuser

Hi,

code from your Wiki

http://www.digital-metaphors.com:8080/index.php?title=Output/PDF/How_To...Merge_Multiple_Reports_into_one_PDF&highlight=pdf

shows the bug. It bug only shows up when you use a self created PDFDevice
to merge multiple Reports to one PDF.

Thanks & Regards
Stefan Kirchhoff

nicocizik

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for pointing this out. The TppPDFSettings.OpenPDFFile property
has been deprecated for RB 15 and has been replaced by the
TppFileDevice.OpenFile property.

The OpenPDFFile property still works for the Report.PDFSettings however
it is not working for a manually created PDFDevice. I will fix this for
backward compatibility in the next release however the preferred method
to open a file is now to use the OpenFile property.

RB 14 or earlier: lPDFDevice.PDFSettings.OpenPDFFile := True;

RB 15 or later: lPDFDevice.OpenFile := True;