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Alek_
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Hello, I have a few PDF compound reports created with PDF Layout Painter which I need to save on the disk and then merge them together into 1 big PDF.
Does anyone have an idea how I can do it?
Thanks in advance.


WF 8.0.6
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Darin Lee
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Adobe Professional / Distiller. Not something that can be done within WF unless you can combine ALL of the reports into a single compound PDF document FEX.


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Darin


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Alek_
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Thanks Darin, then how do i save a PDF Layout Painter report on a disk?


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GinnyJakes
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APP HOLD dirname
TABLE FILE ...
PRINT ...
BY ...
ON TABLE HOLD AS pdf_file_name FORMAT PDF
END

This will put your pdf file in your application path (ibi/apps).


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Francis Mariani
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Ginny, while APP HOLD is a powerful command, it has to be used carefully. If two people run a request with the same hold file name to the same APP HOLD dirname, one would overwrite the other.


Francis


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Alek_
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Thanks Ginny, it works fine on the 1st compound and crashes when it tries to run the 2nd.
I have to save 20-25 PDF Layout compound reports one after another.
any other ideas?
Thanks


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GinnyJakes
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Francis,

I understand that and there is a different technique for that. If it a multi-use program, I use edatemp or another technique with a temp directory. Alek wants to save the pdfs in permanent place so he can merge them.

Alek,

What do you mean that it crashes? Are you naming the files differently? Do you have enough space where you are trying to put them?

Let us know.


Ginny
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I name files 1.pdf, 2.pdf etc. one for each compound report.
It creates the 1st pdf fine, then creates 2nd as a blank page and gives a message "Agent Crashed" and doesn't go any further


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GinnyJakes
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Well, that's not good, is it? The first thing we have to do is simplify the process to see if you can write multiple pdfs.

Why don't you create a focexec using the CAR file and create the multiple pdf files. Looks like you only need to do 2 to get it to fail. You can use a test directory so as not to mess up the thing you are actually working on.

If that works, you might need to get a server trace when you run your real program so that you can find out why the agent is abending.

Another thing. Can you tell us whether you are running this thing from Dev. Studio, a browser, or RC?


Ginny
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