Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

Piero Menno' menno at libero.it
Wed Jan 29 13:29:01 EST 2003


Hi list!
Geoff idea ise very tricky, but what about multi-page document 
(changing some content could change page breaks, in my case..)?

TIA
Piero Menno


>Very clever idea, Geoff!  Thanks!  I'll give it a go.
>
>What about an image reference within PDF?  For instance, if I wanted 
>to change the logo on the letterhead, but could guarantee that it 
>was exactly the same size logo everytime?   Don't want to change 
>this into a PDF thread, but if there's a way to do that, it'd 100% 
>solve my problem!
>
>Thanks gobs.
>Ray
>
>On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 09:53 America/New_York, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>>Many have made suggestions already, but just to throw another on the pile:
>>
>>If your printing format is just text in a PDF and is similar from 
>>one time to the next, it might be fairly straightforward to do this:
>>
>>   1. Create a document that looks the way you want it to. Wherever 
>>text needs to be placed, put an identifiable placeholder. Something 
>>like thisIsPlaceholderText1 should do.
>>   2. Print the document to PDF. Use whatever tools you like.
>>   3. Open the resulting PDF file and look for the placeholder text 
>>you included in the document.
>>   4. Use the PDF file as a template, and when you want to "print to 
>>PDF" just replace the placeholder text with the text you want to > 
>>print.
>>
>>This is probably impractical for anything more complicated that a 
>>standard business letter, but if that's what you want, it's 
>>probably possible.
>>
>>gc
>>
>>On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 03:53 PM, Ray Bennett wrote:
>>
>>>I'd like to be able to include the ability to "save as PDF" right 
>>>into my application when I distribute it.
>>>
>>>Has anyone done this?
>>>Thanks again in advance.
>>>Ray
>>>
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>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Geoff Canyon
>>gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
>>
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