PDFs and RB 9.02

rbuser

Hello, I have Delphi 7 and earlier today was still at RB 9.01.

I put in the code to have my report open as a PDF and that worked fine, but
the font was blurry. We are using RTF Boxes and building the entire report
on the fly. Apparently the PDF version doesn't like those too much. Thats
my first problem. Is there a setting to fix that?

Second, I upgraded to 9.02 to see if that fixed the error, but as soon as I
call report.print with the PDF Settings all set, I get an Access
Violation...when I go back to just screen print, it works fine.

Any ideas?

--Brandie

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Brandie VanNort
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Ebby Halliday, Realtors
Dallas, Texas
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rbuser

any reason you didn't try 9.03?

Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

I just noticed on a previous post that there is a 9.03. We never recieved
an email about it though.

Same thing happened with 9.02, never got the email.

Can you email me a link for it?

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Brandie VanNort
Computer Services Administrator
Ebby Halliday, Realtors
Dallas, Texas
http://www.ebbyhalliday.com
Phil 4:13 "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me"
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rbuser

Ok, I installed 9.03...However when I run the report, anything thats being
built on the fly in an RTF box is STILL very messed up...the font is VERY
blurry...now right now the font is garamond, but I tried arial as well and
it does the same thing. I think it has to do with the RTF boxes and a PDF
conflict...any ideas on that?

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Brandie VanNort
Computer Services Administrator
Ebby Halliday, Realtors
Dallas, Texas
http://www.ebbyhalliday.com
Phil 4:13 "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me"
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nicocizik

Hi Brandie,

The PDF device currently exports all RTF controls as bitmap images. During
this conversion process, some of the quality of the richtext can definitely
be lost. One option is to replace the richtext controls with memo controls
before exporting to PDF however you will loose all the RTF formatting in the
process. This is something that we may change for a later release of
ReportBuilder.

Note: Some third party export devices enable you to switch from an image
RTF export to a plain text export (making the memo process I described above
automatic). See http://www.waler.com. Still others export your RTF using
vector graphics which keeps the quality of the control and the formatting.
See http://www.gnostice.com.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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