Subject Re: Emailing Reports
From Dick Snow <dickDOT.snowAT@poboxDOT.com>
Date Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:01:34 -0500
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

That may help with the name of the .pdf file but it won't change the
email address of the person you want to send the report to ;-}

I was able to print 250 different .pdf's and email them to 250
different people under program control of the .ini file in one report.

"Mervyn Bick" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:51:56 +0200, Dick Snow  
><dickDOT.snowAT@poboxdot.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been awhile since I had to do this so I don't remember all the
>> details, but PDF995 (from pdf995.com) can do this. You basically set
>> the printer to the PDF995 driver for each employee. Just before you
>> kick off the report for the next employee, you can re-write the
>> PDF995.ini file to save the next report with a different file name
>> and/or email it. You need the EDIT995 program to easily change the
>> .ini file but once you figure out what they are doing, it's easy to
>> edit the .ini file under program control. PDF995 has been mentioned
>> many times in these newsgroups before so you could do a search.
>
>It's probably only of academic interest but if you change the Output File  
>entry in pdf995.ini to
>
>Output File=SAMEASDOCUMENT
>
>all you need to do is change the title property of the report to whatever  
>you want the .pdf field to be named.  No more messing about with the .ini  
>file. :-)
>
>If, for instance, you change the report's title property to  
>"2014Oct_J_Soap_payslip" the report will output to  
>2014Oct_J_Soap_payslip.pdf
>
>Mervyn.