Creating QuarkXpress or PDF

[mathirajan]

Anyone knows how to automate quarkXpress from visual
FoxPro?. QuarkXpress is like MS Word. i want to create
quark doc through VFP. Also how to generate PDF
document from visual foxpro. I am not using VFP
reports; hence I cannot use the FRX2Any tool. The API
functions would be helpful.

My requirement is that i want to write straight to the PDF from VFP using API calls or functions/methods provided by Adobe(PDF maker) or QuarkXpress. i want to pump my data to PDF or QuarkXpress document. I want to use different style/format that are specifiec to the respective document creator.

Currently i could succesfully able to write into MS word by automating word. I could also be able to read the formats/styles from word documents and apply that to my data that gets generated as word document. i wanna do the same with PDF and QuarkXpress.

Thanks

Mathi

 

[baltman]

Check out faq184-4349 'Automatic MS Office to PDF Module'

Believe it or not, I've never seen a QuarkXpress document...

Brian

 

[ramani]

Hi Mathi,

You can download from Universal thread
---->

http://www.Universalthread.com

Click on download
Search for ... Free/Simple VFP Report To PDF - Print2PDF
(approximately 15.5 MB)

Using this, you can easily achieve what you want to send a report to PDF format.

i.e,,, instead of
REPORT FORM (rptFile) NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER

all you have to do is call Print2Pdf as in..
=Print2pdf(myFile,rptFile) or some such simple syntax.

(Since I have modified mine, and I use the above syntax, I cannot confirm, if that works with the downloaded one). But that is very simple.




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[mathirajan]

Hi ramani,

Thanks for ur attempt. I am not using VFP Reports. I did mention that. Well, actually i want to write straight into PDF from VFP not even VFP reports in between. I cannot use reports for various resons.

Any resource for PDF generation through API or resource for quarkXpress would be great. I am unsuccesful on my attempt in the quarkXpress site.

By the way mr. subramanian where r u working? i am also a tamilian. Its good to c somebody from my place in VFP forum.


Mathi

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Any resource for PDF generation through API or resource for quarkXpress would be great.

I do not think that there is an API call that generates a PDF. Normally PDFs are generated by first converting the document to a PostScript file then to a PDF.

Mike Gagnon

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