Reports in PDF

[tommyj77pl]

Hello agian!
I would like to ask if anybody ever tried to resolve the problem with tones of paper generated by mfg? I am looking for a way to save reports in pdf files which will show in the window before you can save it... Do you know any solution?
thnx in advance

 

[Max Viskov]

Hi
You may see one here: http://www.32soft.com/site/modules/xt_conteudo/index.php?id=12


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Max Viskov
Senior Consultant, Implementation Services
MFG/PRO Toronto User Group Board Member
32Soft Inc., an Official QAD Subcontractor
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[tommyj77pl]

Sounds and looks good. Does it work in Unix enviroment?

 

[Max Viskov]

Yes, it works with Unix and Linux. Please remember, that this is a client solution, installed on your PC.
You can download the trial version here:
http://www.32soft.com/site/modules/PDdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1

Regards
____________________________________
Max Viskov
Senior Consultant, Implementation Services
MFG/PRO Toronto User Group Board Member
32Soft Inc., an Official QAD Subcontractor
Need GL Report Writer reports on the Web/Excel?
Check 32WebReport at http://www.32soft.com/site/modules/xt_conteudo/index.php?id=9[FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

[tommyj77pl]

If it's client solution it doesn't resolve the problem. Thera are more then 100 users in my company and instaling it on every computer would be too difficult. I can try to do it using PHP by integrating it with our html report results.

 

[Max Viskov]

What telnet client are you using?
Thanks

____________________________________
Max Viskov
Senior Consultant, Implementation Services
MFG/PRO Toronto User Group Board Member
32Soft Inc., an Official QAD Subcontractor
Need GL Report Writer reports on the Web/Excel?
Check 32WebReport at http://www.32soft.com/site/modules/xt_conteudo/index.php?id=9[FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

[tommyj77pl]

We use Putty...
I also found different way to have a pdf format of the report.
It may not be right place for that but I try.
All I want to do is get report in pdf format by selecting output PDF... then instead of html format report I would like to have pdf report
( I don't want to write pdf to any location cuz it makes a problem then to find it)
It would be no problem at all if I could include php code in html report.
I can only include JAVA like
window.open('http://location of my apavche php server/index.php?url=' +location.href).
It sends url to my apache server but php cannot process this link.
It works if I paste URL into address toolbar... Any suggestion?

 

[Max Viskov]

Hi
Apache web servert does not do anything to HTML requests-responds, it only is passing them through to Tomcat. That is why php won't work here. (BTW Apache no longer in use in .NET interface but Tomcat is, eventially desktop will go away).
You will need to identify QAD Java servlet in the desktop application, which generates "PAGE" html window and replace it with your custom servlet, which will actually wrap the data stream with PDF output. You may use iTEXT open source library to write PDF wrapper. Based on the PAGE width parameter the PDF wrapper may adjust font size or width to fit PDF output page. This way, your servlet will generate PDF and open it up in browser window.
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Max Viskov
Senior Consultant, Implementation Services
MFG/PRO Toronto User Group Board Member
32Soft Inc., an Official QAD Subcontractor
Need to extract MFG/PRO documents to Excel and Acrobat?
Free Tools at http://www.32soft.com/site/modules/xt_conteudo/index.php?id=12

 

[Marian EDU]

you might try fraser stream (http://www.fraserstream.com)we've made a printer add-on that allow you to share the printer so everybody can print directly from MFG/PRO and get a nice PDF report that can be later used as they see fit.--marian

 

[sphipp]

What we do is to run the reports to a disk file, then we open up a Samba share on a Windows Desktop, open the file in Wordpad, or Notepad, and print it off using a PDF Virtual Printer, which allows us to produce a PDF File of the printed output.

You still need some client software to enable the PDF generation.

 

[tommyj77pl]

This is still too complicated to get one PDF document. I need to find the way to Send content of report body tag using JAVA. send it to my apache/php server and then it's easy to make PDF. And the most important thing is user just press the button and get PDF document on the fly... probably I nedd to go to JAVA forum hopefully they will help me
Regards