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    Read a PDF using Progress 4GL

    Hi I'd use pdfInclude for this (disclaimer: I'm the one behind it). What kind of information do you need to read? metadata or text on the page? ++ JC
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    Question Ways to merge PDF and text to print as one job

    Hi Liza If I understand correctly you have an existing system producing a kind of text report, and you want to append to this report an existing pdf file? and may be append more text pages after? Do you also need to alter the existing pdf? This is definitely something where pdfInclude could...
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    Question Ways to merge PDF and text to print as one job

    Hi Liza You have the doc here: http://www.snowwolf-software.com/pdfinclude/readme.pdf pdfInclude cannot convert a pdf file to any image format. Why "creating a new PDF and merging both text and content of PDF into one (is) not feasible at this time"? May be I'd need more detail in order to...
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    Question Ways to merge PDF and text to print as one job

    Hi I'd do it using pdfInclude (but being the maintainer of it, I'm a little bit biaised ;)) i.e. I would generate a pdf file with everything merged correctly together then send it to the printer. Would give you full control and full ABL... Regards JC
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    Abl Profiler On Linux

    Thanks for the ppt Tom, very interesting! I'd like to use it in order to profile pdfInclude, but I never found the time to do it properly. Hopefully this will help me :)
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    How To Start The Same Program Multiple Times With Different Parameters Without Waiting For The First

    As the AVM is not multi-threaded, the only possibilities I see is: 1. os-command silent no-wait prowin32.exe -p b.p (but performance will suffer) 2. use an appserver, and connect to it from a.p then run b.p asynchronously on it - maybe use various partitions. 3. I just got my hands on PASOE, may...
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    Determine If Pdf Has Editable Text Fields

    If pdf combine does not ask for any password, then they must have a blank password haven't they? You can "unprotect" them using qpdf (QPDF: A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System). I think you can also use it to combine various pdfs. May be a better option in your case.
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    Determine If Pdf Has Editable Text Fields

    Then why not try to replace pdf combine by let's say pdftk?
  9. J

    Determine If Pdf Has Editable Text Fields

    Hi I'd go with pdfInclude... Might be a little bit overkill though if the only thing you need is knowing the form has fields. What else will you do with the pdf once you know it has fields (or not)? Regards JC
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