Ken: 1. Get a copy of PDFCreator 1.7.3 for Windows. if you can’t find one, let me know and I’ll send you a copy. I could also dig out code for assigning the printer to PDF Creator with file naming, etc.
2. You will probably have to run 2 ‘print’ passes, one for the batch PDF, the other for individual PDF’s or hard copy. 3. Have 4D email the individual PDF’s. > On Jul 30, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Kenneth Geiger via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a very mature application for a high-precision welding operation. I > had written the original app back in 1984 using SMART (a DOS Database App). > I re-wrote this app in 4D at the beginning of 2015. The "conversion" went > smoothly and there are no known issues. It is presently on 4D v15 and I'm > presently migrating it to v16 R3. It is a small system (Windows Server 2012 > R2, Windows 10 Pro workstations, 4-users). > > My customer has asked me to add some functionality. Presently, one of the > functions creates and prints a batch of Invoices. This function just prints > two-sets of Invoices - one-set is filed and one-set is snail-mailed. Many > of their customers want to receive the Invoices via email. In anticipation > of this, when I did the re-write I added two fields to the "customer" table > "email address" (text) and "email invoice" (boolean). While there are > trivial and highly manual ways to do this, they would like to automate > (completely, if possible) the process. In an ideal world, the function > would: > > - Create a complete set of an Invoice Batch as PDF. This could be > individual PDF documents for each invoice or one large PDF document > containing all the invoices in the batch. This would be saved to the server > and would be my customer's file-copy. > - For each Invoice where the bool field in the related customer is true, > create a PDF document of the Invoice and email it to the address in > the "email address" field. > - For each Invoice where the bool field in the related customer is > false, create a physical printout to be snail-mailed. > > > A typical batch of invoices (run monthly) is between 100 and 200 individual > invoices. Any recommended plugins and/or suggestions, recommendations, or a > direction in which to head would be most appreciated! > > Ken Geiger > Dolores, CO > 4D Developer since 1991 > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** _________________________________________ Bob McKeever http://www.mswl.com <http://www.mswl.com/> McKeever's Software Wizardry Port Coquitlam, B.C. bobmckee...@mac.com ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
