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Hello my Tek-Tips Gurus. It has been a while... I could use your insight once again please. I need to find a PDF to text converter that can be run on batches of files for the purpose of importing supplier invoices. The objective is to automate import of text (invoice lines & values) from PDF...

Hello Tek-Tips Gurus Please can anyone help me with Outlook automation - specifically with making use of a non-default secondary profile? I'm still using VFP6 (yes!) and have Outlook 2007 for dev/tests - will be 2010 when live. Initially my two accounts were set up in Outlook and I tried to...

Hiya Just a quick note. I was looking at how to send latitude / longitude with job locations. There are lots of suggestions involving Google, Yahoo and other mapping services, including thread184-1708343 - but I came across this list today that gives the latitude and longitude for the first...

Hi there Gurus, Please can I seek your advice on yet another challenge? I need to monitor a web mail address from VFP6 without using Outlook automation. The email account has IMAP and POP3 settings, may be accessed using SSL or non-SSL and will be used for one purpose only, to receive...

Hi there Gurus Can I seek your advice again please? I have been asked to interface between a VFP app and an established web service using HTTP and SOAP. While I have done some previous work with HTTP requests, I have not to this point done any work with SOAP. I have info relating to the...

Hi Gurus Happy Friday! (At least I hope it will be eventually when I finally decide to knock off for the week...) I'm working for the first time ever with the web browser ActiveX control in a form (VFP6) and it's pretty much doing what I want. I'm happy with that - but I have one problem. When...

Hello my Gurus... It’s been at least six months. I hope that all is well with you. I need to ask for your advice again relating to a past post … VFP to HTML forms and back again - mobile development http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1709740 It’s for the next stage of the project tho...

Hi Gurus I need some direction - can you advise me please? First, I apologise if much of this thread relates to HTML, but it starts and ends in VFP 6.0 I need to create the processes for completing forms created with HTML and submitting the data via email, where it can be processed into a VFP...

Hi there Gurus Could I have some help please? I have just had some questions regarding renewing the hardware for one of my clients. Q1 - Is VFP6 compatible with Windows 7 64-bit? Q2 - And what if they keep the 32-bit Server - will that work? I'm definately no hardware buff, so in short my...

Hello again everyone... It's not really a technical question today as such. I'm looking to learn some new things... So please can you point me to some "recommended reads"? I am thinking about building a portable application that could run on a tablet [but that wouldn't be Windows] or from the...

Hi Gurus I need some general advice on how to improve performance, if that's possible please... I am still working in VFP6 - mostly running on PCs using XP and Windows 7 I have a networked system with 12 users, working directly in shared data files of 25000 jobs (currently), with memo text...

Hi Gurus With reference to so many threads (thread184-698845, thread184-1485500 and thread184-1485500 to name but a few...) I needed to print a PDF from VFP6 and I thank you for your tips for ShellExecute, which I am finding increasingly useful for different things - file case naming etc. I...

Hi I'm working in VFP6 using ghostscript (print2pdf) code to convert postscript files (printed from VFP reports) to PDFs. What I need to do is add a "file copy" watermark to some of the PDFs. I found some code online that is supposed to do this, so I have modified a copy of the print2pdf code...

Dear Gurus Please could you share your opinions on the use of memo fields? More specifically: 1) Memos used in a multi-user environment in a VFP6 application 2) Where existing text can be updated and overwritten many times 3) Where 100s of records are added daily 4) And the file is only...

I forgot to mention - this is on applications developed in VFP6 and the computers are mostly XP. I've also just found this page which gives a method I can try at one location http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2006/10/why-some-shortcuts-say-publisher-cannot-be-verified/, but on a larger...

Hi Gurus Back again I'm afraid with the same issue as thread184-1661409 I have spent days looking into converting PDF files to TIFFs and even possibly into Word DOCs, so that they can be attached to fax email. The documents in question are service sheets, which the client will not scan and...

Hi Again I have made some minute progress with faxing from Outlook, using Fax Mail Transport, in that I managed to send myself a fax. I'm getting a message saying unable to render all the attachments, which is because I haven't done any conversion. I understand that the header and other pages...

Hi Tek-Tips Gurus Can anyone assist me with Faxing via Outlook Automation please? I have a few questions. I want to send sets of documents by fax using Outlook. I have completed the code to do this based on sending an email to a [fax: #####] number with a subject line, using the message body...

Hiya I'm having to revisit the issue of packing and reindexing files and needing exclusive access. I have one situation where the users either do not want to come out of the application or a computer in another part of the building has been left in the application. It is vital to the...

Hi to All. I have a new question for you... I need to copy text from Excel into Outlook email to create the Message Body / Fax Header. I will know the workbook file name and ask the user to select the worksheet name from an array. I couldn't find any way to paste with automation into...