Dec 28, 2007

How can I avoid the 'save as' dialog when printing to a .pdf file. I am setting the filename in the I/o properties, and that appears to work correctly. Why is the program asking me where I want to save the file?

 

What I want to use for my patient history display, is to print the history to a .pdf file, then open that .pdf file. It needs to be seamless for the user.

 

--Howard Miller        

 

if you buy now an adobe, i don't think the Adobe PDFWriter is included. That is gone i think since v5. So you can work with the Adobe Distiller ActiveX.

But better indeed is the now included pdf-support of eDev :-)

 

regards

-- Frank Van HErreweghe

 

 

Hi Howard,

 

You mean V10.1 SP3, right?

 

Try the following:

 

  1) I/O devices,Exp/Var = <full pdf path>

  2) I/O devices, Pdlg = No

  3) I/O devices Properties (Context menu/Properties):

     Print Preview = Yes.

 

That might do what you are looking for.

 

Omar

 

Provided you don't use images, Magic's PDF support is within

acceptable limits - they really need to expose some (non-)compression

options for images to make that work, I was forced to revert to pdf995

 

Tables work better with

/[MAGIC_SPECIALS]SpecialTable2dPrint=Y

 

applied somewhere along the line

 

 

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