Subject Re: Emailing Reports
From omer-Pitou <pitou_ntumba@yahoo.fr>
Date Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:04:56 -0500
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Hello Dick,
Can you share some codes on this?
I never used PDF995 to create pdf files, I use crystal reports instead.



Dick Snow Wrote:

> 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.