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susannah
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Does anyone know what it is about pdf that it can't take jpgs only gifs?
Carol...pdf expert that you are...do you know?



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Tony A
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Hi Susannah,

Not sure if it's a problem your end but the following will display the .jpg perfectly. It uses an existing .jpg file contained within the ibisamp folder.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST
    DCOST
 BY COUNTRY
 BY CAR
 BY MODEL
HEADING
" </4"
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN, PAGESIZE='A4', LEFTMARGIN=0.20, RIGHTMARGIN=0.20, TOPMARGIN=0.20,
     BOTTOMMARGIN=0.20, SQUEEZE=ON, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, PAGECOLOR=RGB(240 245 255), $
  TYPE=HEADING, IMAGE=mnt_bg1.jpg, POSITION=(0 0), SIZE=(11 8), $
ENDSTYLE
END


Don't forget that the image file has to be local to the reporting server in the case of PDFs but local to the client server (web server) for HTML and Excel output.

Regards

T


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Lenny Ward
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This is a WebFOCUS thing. It is not unusual to imbed JPEGS into a PDF file.

We do it with other products such as ActivePDF.

Lenny


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Tony A
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This is a WebFOCUS thing.


Lenny,

Does this mean you can't run the above example?

....

Old documentation (4.3) suggests that only .gif files should be embedded in PDF or PS output.
However, documentation for 7.1.3 for including a graph in a PDF document, states that "Graphs must be specified as a format of SVG, GIF, or JPG.". Ok, that is specific to graphs, but as by nature these are images then it follows that JPG files must be Ok to embed into a PDF document via WebFOCUS.

My example above is from WF 5.3.2 on Windows.

T


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susannah
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ah. i'm on 5.2
maybe that's the problem.
maybe its 53+ only;
my jpg is in ibi_apps\ibisamp, the only jpeg that comes along with that dir.
the gifs in the dir work fine
the jpg yields a 'error in stylesheet'
(i use the full mapped drive address of the images, anyway)



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mgrackin
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Susannah,

Originally only GIFs were supported. However, as you noted, later releases added the ability to support JPGs and SVG.


Thanks!

Mickey

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Tony A
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Hi Susannah,

I thought the additional image support came when major release 5 was issued?

Your comment ...
quote:
my jpg is in ibi_apps\ibisamp, the only jpeg that comes along with that dir.
would indicate to me that you are refering to the web server and not the reporting server? If that is the case then check out the existance of the [drive]:/ibi/apps/ibisamp folder on the reporting server (or are they both the same as on a local install?) as that is where the file must exist.

Regards

T


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susannah
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oops i mistyped
i meant ibi\apps\ibisamp
when i reference the gif in that directory, it works fine.
when i ref the jpg , it gives me the stylesheet error.
so, you're thining 5n should work? hmmm. i'll open a case maybe.



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Tony A
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You got me to thinking and questioning my assumption. So I checked Smiler

jpeg support was introduced into 5.3 (and possibly only .2) according to this document.

T


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