Special

Introducing the “Welcome to Xojo” Bundle!

New to Xojo and looking for guidance? We've put together a terrific bundle to welcome you! Xojo Bundle

This bundle includes six back issues of the magazine -- all of year 21 in printed book and digital formats -- plus a one-year subscription (beginning with 22.1) so you'll be learning all about Xojo for the next year. It's the perfect way to get started programming with Xojo. And you save as much as $35 over the non-bundle price!

This offer is only available for a limited time as supplies are limited, so hurry today and order this special bundle before the offer goes away!

Article Preview


Buy Now

Issue 8.5

FEATURE

Printing PDFs

Easy PDF printing on Mac and Windows

Issue: 8.5 (July/August 2010)
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software REALbasic Plugins.
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 7,514
Starting Page Number: 18
Article Number: 8505
Resource File(s):

Download Icon 8505.zip Updated: 2010-07-05 16:14:35

Related Web Link(s):

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin-dynapdf.shtml
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/intro_to_sdk/DeveloperFAQ.pdf

Excerpt of article text...

Printing a PDF cross platform has never been an easy job. First, Windows does not ship with anything that can read, render, or print PDF files. Second there is nothing for PDF built into REALbasic so you have to use some third party libraries or applications. Mac OS X has some PDF capabilities, but Preview.app, the main PDF viewer, is not even AppleScriptable. So this article will show you how to print a PDF on both Mac OS X and Windows.

Creating a PDF

First, we need to have an application which creates a PDF. For this we simply take example code that comes with the plugins:

...End of Excerpt. Please purchase the magazine to read the full article.