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2008-01-12 12:16:29 PM
delphi67
I'm looking for a Delphi (D7 Win 32) component that'll allow me to create a
PDF printer driver. There are plenty of free or cheap drivers available,
but I need to have full control over the task so that I can send the PDF to
a programatically selected destination, and perform other processing such as
writing a record to a database etc. - so a driver in component form is
preferred.
Any ideas or reccomendations?
Thanks
Dave White
 

Hi Dave
Some time ago I bought the book "Inside Delphi 2006" by Ivan Hladni
(Wordware Publisking) (and put it on the bookshelf for decoration ;-) ). In
it there is Chapter 27 called "Printing, Creating PDF Documents, and
Refactoring". (50 pages)
From the chapter intro ....
"The Chapter ends with a description of the PDF file format and shows how to
print, or more precisely, how to export text files to a PDF document".
I actually went searching for this exact info early this morning and am just
about to get started on using it myself.
HTH
--
Malcolm
Townsville, Australia
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track it down. Thanks Malcolm.
 

You could do worse than buying from Gnostice. They have a driver and a SDK
to control that driver. I haven't used it myself, but the product I use from
them, eDocEngine, is excelent.
www.gnostice.com/print2edocsdkOverview.asp
 

www.novapdf.com
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"Ottar Holstad" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
product. I already use their export engine and I am very happy with it.
This may be just what we need.
 

Dave White schrieb:
and for our needs it turned out that the
wpdf (www.wptools.de) is the best one for our needs.
It allows direct rendering to a DC, does not install a
new printer (but works best if one is installed), is multithreaded
(it does not install a new printer for each printing job
like the gnostice approach) and even supports unicode
with the latest version.
kind regards
Mike
 

Lead tools sells the ePrint driver and SDK.
John
 

Hi Dave,
From what you have described, Print2eDoc SDK, should fit your needs just
right. Do contact us if you need any assistance.
--
Girish Patil
Gnostice Information Technologies www.gnostice.com
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PDF and e-document tools for developers - VCL, .NET, Java & ActiveX
www.gnostice.com
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Hi Mike,
"Rabatscher Michael" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
(it does not install a new printer for each printing job
like to clarify that eDocEngine does *not* install or need a printer to
create/convert to PDF and can draw direct to DC as well.
 

kind regards
Mike
 

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Robert
 

What is DC?

Hi Alan,
"Alan T" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
drawing/graphic objects (pen, brush, font...) that ultimately affect output
on a device. Types of DCs are display, printer and some others. It can be
useful when using direct GDI calls for drawing to a window/printer. See
Win32 programming help/MSDN for more on this.