How to save Navision Reports as PDF

kevinjose356 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:15 am

hmm i think you are right but what's the exact problem with PDF ?

lloydsmods · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:40 pm

Thanks to Rashed for this solution. I am using it for a client who is on NAV 2009 with RTC. They want to print check stubs to PDF without any user intervention. It works beautifully in Classic, but in RTC the BullZip prompt comes up for each PDF, asking for path and filename. ](*,)

Can anyone see what I've done wrong here or is there an issue in RTC that makes this impossible?

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BullZipPDF.Init;
BullZipPDF.LoadSettings;
RunOnceFile := BullZipPDF.GetSettingsFileName(TRUE);
BullZipPDF.SetValue('Output',FileDirectory+FileName);
BullZipPDF.SetValue('Showsettings', 'never');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowPDF', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowProgress', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ShowProgressFinished', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('SuppressErrors', 'no');
BullZipPDF.SetValue('ConfirmOverwrite', 'no');
BullZipPDF.WriteSettings(TRUE);

PayCheckLedger2 := PayCheckLedger;
PayCheckLedger.SETRECFILTER;

REPORT.RUNMODAL(ReportID,FALSE,FALSE,PayCheckLedger);

BTW, I have set BullZip as the default printer AND configured in printer selections. It doesn't work either way.

ara3n · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:25 am

On RTC you don't need bullzip.

You can just call

Report.saveaspdf and save it to a folder.

lloydsmods · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:51 am

Thanks for your help! I totally overlooked that command. I coded an IF ISSERVICETIER loop to use BullZip if running from classic (just in case).

Maximus · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:45 pm

FYI.

I tried to save Navision Reports using eDocPrintPro version 3.17.4. Works fine with Windows Server 2003 but I can't get it to work with Windows Server 2008 although the website claims that it's supported.

Modified the functionality to make use of BullZip now everything works fine under both Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

Maybe this reply saves someone time

he21nrik · **Joined:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:57 pm **Posts:** 3

In case anyone else has this problem - for about 8 hours today I couldn't get PDFCreator v1.3.2 to run on a Terminal Server (2008 R2 64) running NAV 2009 R2 Classic. I could print normally from the report to PDF from the print dialogue and I could instantiate the exe, set options, generate test files etc via COM/Automation using Rashed's script but I could not print the actual report to a PDF - could see the exe in task manager but no jobs were ever added. No error messages/error events, only an eventual time out/forcefully having to kill the process.

Turns out the only way I got it to work was by setting PDFCreator.exe to always run as Administrator and then running NAV itself as Administrator.

Hopefully this will save somebody else a few hours. I'll post a follow up if/when I come up with a better solution/explanation. Any hits/tips highly appreciated.

he21nrik · **Joined:** Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:57 pm **Posts:** 3

Turns out the issue is related to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243555

Installing with administrator privileges with this feature enabled (default) will result in the printer spool directory being in a different directory than for your regular user (without administrator privileges). Running PDFCreator without admin privileges will then result in the application looking in the wrong place for the postscript files. Finally figured this out by using ProcessMonitor.

You can see the difference in what the %TEMP% variable is set to from command prompt by running set temp, then try running cmd.exe as administrator and you will most probably get a slightly different path.

Follow solutions in the link above and it will work like a charm. Hope this saves someone a few hours

Lamba · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 8:10 am

I getting the following error on compiling:

Could not load the selected library. :!:

Lamba · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 8:25 am

Resolved the error..But the new one is that

you cannot enter "item list" in Report No.

ara3n · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 2:35 pm

use a different report. any report that you want to save as pdf.

David Singleton · **Posted:** Wed May 02, 2012 2:53 pm

Lamba wrote:

Resolved the error..But the new one is that

you cannot enter "item list" in Report No.

Try

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REPORT::"Item List"

Lamba · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 12:22 pm

Now a hotfix from Microsoft is available for Nav 2009 Sp1 and Nav R2.
I thought i must update as i got the information.

mpmaurice · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:16 pm

I have imported the form, but when I compile it I get an error message
"could not load the selected type library"
Please can you help me out.
Maurice

ara3n · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:38 am

go to globals and reselect the automation variable for pdfcreator.

G8tor · **Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:10 pm

Has anyone used GhostScript to print PDF in Navistion?

Can anyone give me an example on how to use the GhostScript Automation object in Navison to print PDF?

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