Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Stephen Russell
I was referring to ones my former employer sold back in 2008-2010. Guessing that the program was called Liquid-Office and the actual product was eForms. That was a while back and a lot of changes since then. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:25 PM Charlie-gm wrote: > > The doc mgmt systems I was

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Rafael Copquin
noted, thanks El vie., 14 sept. 2018 a las 16:25, Charlie-gm () escribió: > > The doc mgmt systems I was referring to were ones we built (I was part > of the dev team). They were custom solutions. > > -Charlie > > On 9/14/2018 2:42 PM, Rafael Copquin wrote: > > Thnk you for your offer Charlie.

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Charlie-gm
The doc mgmt systems I was referring to were ones we built (I was part of the dev team). They were custom solutions. -Charlie On 9/14/2018 2:42 PM, Rafael Copquin wrote: Thnk you for your offer Charlie. However, I would not want you to loose any time on this, since I came up with a very

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Rafael Copquin
Thnk you for your offer Charlie. However, I would not want you to loose any time on this, since I came up with a very simple solution, as described in a previous post. I am curious though as to what document management systems you used in the past. have a nice weekend Rafael El vie., 14 sept.

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Rafael Copquin
Thank you guys I just scanned the empty form and embedded it in a VFP report Then, by painstaking trial and error I managed to make the report textboxes coincide with the right place on the form. I printed it and it looks well enough The textboxes have to be set as "bring to front" and the

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Charlie-gm
The opinions are flying, so... In Document Management systems this is given. You set the shell that holds the text objects in place on top of the pdf file. You then pass the data ... This is a false statement. Document management systems do not use the "print on top of PDF" design as "a

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Frank Cazabon
Koen, it's not me asking for help, it's Rafael. I suggested PDFtk as I use it in some systems. Dead simple to implement, maybe 30 minutes tops if you program slowly. Frank. Frank Cazabon On 14/09/2018 12:57 PM, Koen Piller wrote: Frank, Ted is completely correct. Just use VFP: 1) scan

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:57 PM Koen Piller wrote: > Frank, > > Ted is completely correct. > I keep telling you guys... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept)

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Koen Piller
Frank, Ted is completely correct. Just use VFP: 1) scan your given PDF form and extract the different images from that file into separate .jpg files 2) create a dbf/cursor with all the fields you are required to fill in the given PDF 3) search internet for the font used for that PDF 4) create a

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Jan Bucek
BTW "In this way the company will save the cost of having preprinted forms" - is it really more expensive than blank paper + laser printer printing logo, background picture, frames etc.? Dne 13.9.2018 v 23:39 Rafael Copquin napsal(a): I have the following requirement: Print a salary receipt

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Stephen Russell
In Document Management systems this is given. You set the shell that holds the text objects in place on top of the pdf file. You then pass the data to this program and it pumps out a mail merge like operation. There are a few in open source as a guess. My last project to do this created a

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Ted Roche
The advice is pretty good, "don't do this unless you have to." My clients have shipped a quarter-million PDFs with data merged from a database app. so I've given this a bit of thought. Using an image as a background is the worst possible solution short of writing out the receipts by hand and

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Frank Cazabon
If you can get the PDF as a fillable PDF form you can then use PDFtk to fill the form from VFP. Frank. Frank Cazabon On 14/09/2018 10:53 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote: Perhaps I was not very clear. I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image. I want to fill it with the applicable data and

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Peter Cushing
On 14/09/2018 15:53, Rafael Copquin wrote: Perhaps I was not very clear. I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image. I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser printer I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an image. And if I

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Rafael Copquin
Perhaps I was not very clear. I have scanned the empty receipt as a pdf image. I want to fill it with the applicable data and then print it on a laser printer I can't use the vfp report writer because it will not take a pdf file as an image. And if I use a jpg file instead, it will not allow me

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Man-wai Chang
Check out freeware virtual PDF printers? Even if you needed to pay for commercial use, they were cheap. https://www.google.com/search?q=freeware+pdf+printer In Window$ 10, there is a Microsoft Print To PDF in Printers and Scanners section. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote:

RE: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Paul Newton
Which is exactly what we have done for our HMRC P60s -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 14 September 2018 10:01 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image Sent by an external sender -- Maybe I'm

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Alan Bourke
Maybe I'm missing something but would you not just design a normal VFP report with the logo graphic and whatever boxes and lines are required, reproducing the pre-printed stationery, and print that to PDF via XFRX or whatever? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

RE: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Paul Newton
Rafael You could scan the blank form and insert the saved image into a blank report design and then overlay the parts of the form that need to be completed with the usual report controls Paul Newton -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Rafael Copquin Sent: 13 September

Re: Example of T-SQL exception handling within a transaction?

2018-09-14 Thread Christof Wollenhaupt
> > Anyone have an example of how to trap and exception within a T-SQL > transaction and save diagnostic details on why the transaction failed to > an error log? If you insert the exception data to an error table this > information gets lost when you rollback the transaction. I'm sure I'm >