Multiple reports into a PDF

rbuser

I've seen the information at
http://www.digital-metaphors.com:8080/Output/PDF/How_To...Merge_Multiple
_Reports_into_one_PDF but have a question.

I already have a lot of reports that are produced individually, and
save in a folder as archive raf files.

I want to load them each in turn and save them as PDF, so I'm doing
something simiular to that shown but am using a single ReportReader to
load the raf files and print to the PDF device, one at a time but
whilst the final PDF ends up with the right number of reports, each one
is the first one repeated.

Might I be missing something, if so what?

Thanks
Jeremy Knowles

nicocizik

Hi Jeremy,

I have not seen your code but it seems the ArchiveReader is not properly
loading the separate archive files each time it prints. Be sure that the
correct archive file is indeed being loaded each time you make a call to
ArchiveReader.PrintToDevices.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


Nico

Thanks, that helped and I've got it to work great, which means I've
removed the need for the PDF Merging component I was using previously.

One final question - is it possible to get the archivereader to update
the ArchivePageCount property without actually printing it? The reason
I ask is because I need to check the number of pages of each report to
allow me to create the contents page, and currently I am using the
archiver to check this but I have to create another temporary file to
get it to work (previously this created the PDF with the Waler
component so I just picked up the pages after doing that).

Thanks, and thanks too for getting the Delphi 2010 update out so soon,
all is working great!

Jeremy

nicocizik

Hi Jeremy,

The ArchiveReader gets the ArchivePageCount information from the header of
the Archive file. Take a look at TppCustomArchiveReader.ReadHeader for how
this is done and how you might access the information yourself. This is
however meant to be determined when the archive is printed.

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Regards,

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