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Hello,

I have discovered an issue with PDF include - when you use it to fill pdf forms using non-standard character set (CP1250 in my case), the character codepage in the form fields gets wrong. Also, character width is sometimes messed up.
I use most current SVN version of PDF include and OpenOffice 3.2 to generate forms (tried 3.1 as well, with same result).
PDF file structure is a kind of mystery for me, so it's possible that my analysis went in quite wrong direction, but there is what I discovered:

I took the example of how to implement page headers & footers directly from the PDFinclude PRO v1 Documentation and from the table.p sample program.

My code is as follows:
{pdf/pdf_inc.i }

RUN Create-pdf.
PROCEDURE Create-pdf:

RUN pdf_new ("Spdf", "tmp/pdfTest.pdf").
RUN pdf_set_Orientation ("Spdf", "Portrait").

Is there a way where you can enable word wrap when using the matrix/Table if the string is greater than the width of the column then then there will be a new line in the cell.

I have use following cade for make legal size pdf but it doesnt work.
RUN pdf_set_PaperType IN h_PDFinc ("Spdf","Legal").

should I add more for generate my legal size pdf.

When using a PDF form with form fields as a template, and populating the form fields, is there a way to tell PDF Include not to flatten some or all the form fields in the generated PDF document ?

In other words, I would like to open the resulting PDF document with Adobe Reader and be able to fill the form fields.

Right now, after generating a PDF form, the form fields no longer exist.

PS: Using version 3.3.3 on AIX 6.1 64bit with OpenEdge 10.2B06

Good Morning,

I've found that this topic has been discussed numerous times online before, but I haven't come across anywhere that a solution has been given (assuming there even is one). Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I frequently use pdf includes to generate reports for my company's clients. Lately, several of them have sent me pdf files that use their special forms as a background, requesting that I print my reports to them.

Hi All,

Just wondering is it possible to start a pdfinclude file in one .p then run another .p to generate some content? My program just seems to output whatever the first procedure has done nothing of the second, it doesnt look like i can define a shared stream within the pdfinc. I am using the latest version of pdfinc with progress version 10.2c.

Thanks in Advance,

xscottehx

Hi,
First of all thanks a lot for this amazing tool...

I just seen this tool. I'm very new on this. I am trying to test but I couldn't write Turkish fonts on PDF document from Progress Database?

How can I do this?

Regards,
Mucip:)

Is there any documentation available regarding creating PDF documents from XML data? I do see the xml sample included with the library, however, it does not seem to do exactly what I want. The documentation provided only explains the pdf_load_xml function, I do not see any documentation for the various other xml functions.

I thank the procudure pdf_set_base14_codepage & pdf_encoding are useful,
but do not get any sample or document, I am trying.
Would you help me please, thank you.