PDF Extender

[JTaylor]

Not sure this will interest anyone but just in case, I have posted a PDF generation extender.   Do note the word "generation".  It does not do editing, extraction, etc.   Looked into that but everything I found for free required 64-bit compiling.

http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/pdf.zip

Jim

[kdmoyers]

YMAFJ  (Yet More Awesome From Jim)

Thanks man!

[td]

Interesting. Adobe has abandoned its COM interfaces for PDF files and I am not sure how much .Net offers via the .Net framework or MSFT Office exposed interfaces. The PDF document format seems to be more popular than ever.

[spl]

Excel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.

[JTaylor]

Yep. Made me realize I needed rectangles to make grids pretty.  Had thought about shapes but left them out initially.   Still trying to decide if any of the others would be helpful.

Jim

Excel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.

[td]

Excel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.

GitHub has several open-source .Net libraries that purport to handle the creation of PDF documents. Some seem to offer .Net Framework versions that may work with WinBatch. I haven't looked at any of them in detail but I don't think they preclude the need for a well designed "native" solution.

[bottomleypotts]

Hey Jim,

This is very cool. Thank you.

Ps. The demo csv is missing, though is easy enough to generate.

I also seem to be having problems with @PDF_128A being undefined.

[JTaylor]

Thanks for letting me know.   Not sure how I missed the csv file.   Had a blank space in the CONSTANT.  See if this works better.


     http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/pdf.zip

Jim

[bottomleypotts]

Thanks Jim.

[JTaylor]

Added TextExtraction to the PDF Extender.

     http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/wbOmnibus.zip

Jim