Printing PDFs and TIFs in VFP-Reports as Picture

[georg59]

I have a table (named docouments) containing an object row (named file). in the objekt row i have to store different filetypes such as word, excel, jpg and others...

Then i have a report containing a picture. As picture data source i use the field documents.file. This works great for many types of files as doc, xls, and so on.
But now my problem: in case of PDFs or TIFs the picture field shows only the file icon instad of its content.

Does anyone have an idea or has some practice how to handle this?

Georg Nickel
Germany

 

[robsuttonjr]

I think you need a third party tool to do what you want. Check this out:

http://www.frx2any.com/

Regards,

Rob

 

[robsuttonjr]

Sorry previous link may not be as specific to your need as this one is:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~PDFwithinareport~VFP

Regards,

Rob

 

[georg59]

Thanks robsuttonjr,
I think I have to reduce the functionality only to TIFs. After some tests this works if the TIF-files are in the right format.
Why PDFs still don't work keeps a mystery for me...

Georg Nickel
Germany

 

[robsuttonjr]

Foxpro report image object handles images. A PDF is not of type image.

Regards,

Rob