[AccessD] External dependencies

[Stuart McLachlan]

What did you commercial product do that an Access report with 
DoCmd.OutputTo acReport, "rptSoeReport", acFormatPDF, ReportFolder() & "SOmeReport" & ".pdf", False 
won't do?

If that doesn't work, have you tried VPE, it's very powerful and fairly easy to use and just 
requires distribution of one DLL with your application.

https://www.idealsoftware.com/en/pdf-library/report-engine.html

"The VPE Community Edition is free of charge and - also for commercial 
applications - royalty-free. For this edition IDEAL Software does not provide any 
warranties nor support liabilities at all. In addition updates are not provided on a 
regular basis and not neccessarily at the same time as the commercial editions.

The free-of-charge provision is based on the principle of fairness:
If you are using VPE in a commercial application which generates profit, we would 
like to ask you to acquire licenses for the full version."

I use the .standard DLL, but  



On 5 Jun 2023 at 16:30, Ryan W wrote:

> I have some code that does some PDF assembly and manipulation via a
> commercial product that up until the most recent version has COM
> binding so I could do it all natively in Access.
> 
> The latest version dropped the COM library but has some features I
> want/need.
> 
> I re-wrote the code in python using their trial libary and used a
> utility to bundle that as an exe so I don't have to concern myself
> with making sure all the users have python installed but instead can
> just launch the executable (from code) with a couple command line
> switches to pass in data needed for output.
> 
> I'm really not a fan of having external dependencies if I can avoid
> them. More stuff to bundle/remember/set up when deploying new
> workstations and such.... but I guess "it is what it is".
> 
> Anyone have any pointers, gotchas or words of wisdom for scenarios
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