[AccessD] PDF printer driver and SDK

Hi William and John

They are very different.

The neevia thingy prints to an installed neevia printer object, which can output in many other format than PDF (could be very useful), while Leban's dlls generate PDF files directly from the report or from a snapshot file.

This neevia example:
  Example 7 Convert a MS Access report into PDF from Visual Basic  56
does nothing more than open Access, change the default printer to the special printer, choose PDF format, print the report, set back the default printer.

No matter how small the license is, it can cause issues at clients regarding approval and administration. Thus, we mostly use the free PDF printer from:

  http://freepdfxp.de/fpxp.htm 

Note the Administration Manual and the (small) resource kit.
It uses the Apple Postscript driver and Ghostscript to produce high-quality output.

For more specialized purposes, Leban's dlls are worth a look.
/gustav


>>> wdhindman at bellsouth.net 07-02-2006 11:57:27 >>>
...what functionality does it provide that isn't available in Leban's free 
code?
http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm 

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: [AccessD] PDF printer driver and SDK


> Folks,
>
> I just discovered this:
>
> http://www.neevia.com/ 
>
> Cheap at $19 for the cheapest printer driver (per machine I think) and $30
> for the SDK to write VB code to drive it.  I printed my first Access
> document 15 minutes after discovering the web site, through free downloads
> of the driver and SDK.  Of course the free driver places "printed by
> Docuprinter SDK" in every page of the printed doc, which I assume goes 
> away
> when you buy the $30 license which I will be doing tonight I think.