Could you use Output Filename Append?
Brent
-----Original Message-----
From: Emmitt Dove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: Multiple reports to a single .PDF
>Alan,
>
>Thanks for the tip. Having looked at fineprint, I can attest that it is a
>nice program with some interesting features, but it still misses my mark on
>two counts:
>
> 1 - I need full automation - that is, send all output between
>OUTPUT PRINTER and OUTPUT SCREEN commands to one standard filename on disk
>and let me rename it as I wish without user intervention
> 2 - I need to be able to save the output in PDF format. fineprint
>doesn't offer PDF storage as an option. Having to redirect the output back
>to Distiller again requires user intervention that I wish to avoid.
>
>Still, quite a nice little program.
>
>Emmitt
>
>
>>Emmitt,
>>
>>Take a look at FinePrint at www.fineprint.com
>>
>>I use FinePrint as my default printer 99.9% of the time. You could let
>>FinePrint accumulate multiple reports back to back and then direct it
>>(FinePrint) to hand the results of to the Distiller or the PDF Writer.
>>
>>I highly recommend the product.
>>
>>Alan Steward
>>Fairfax, VA
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>At 10:49 05/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Greetings, all. We have a few print jobs that we would like to store in
>>>.PDF files. We have installed the Distiller and the PDF writer, and can
>>>do output through either of these.
>>>
>>>The problem is that we need to place the results of multiple PRINT
>>>statements in one PDF. As it works now, only the last print job ends up
>>>in the file. In other words,:
>>>
>>> PRNSETUP *( to select PDF writer)
>>> OUTPUT PRINTER
>>> PRINT reporta
>>> PRINT reportb
>>> PRINT reportc
>>> OUTPUT SCREEN
>>>
>>>So we want all three reports to end up in the same PDF, but we only get
>>>the last one.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a trick to accomplish our desired result?
>>>
>>>Environment is 6.5++ 1.840k, Windows 2000 Pro, Acrobat 4.0.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Emmitt Dove
>>>Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
>>>Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
>>>40 Lindeman Drive
>>>Trumbull, CT 06611
>>>(203) 673-2231
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
