filePro pdf printing

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/16/2015 11:07 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> Ken, Thanks for getting back to me.
>
> Might I suggest a corrected set of instructions go out with regard to the
> orientation instruction error.

This was just recently found.  I'm not sure what support did to let people 
know about it.

> Also some coding examples of how to accomplish various formatting options.
>
> Also, could not <page size="letter" orient="landscape"> be put into the
> fpml print table and inserted as a print code?

Absolutely.

> See my responses below.
[...]
>>> What am I doing wrong?  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The docs had a mistake, and the attribute was "orient", not "orientation".
>> Newer versions of filePro will take both.  However, given that you then
>> explicitly set the page height and width, that should be irrelevant here.
>> (Is there a reason you are sending both?)
>
> As the first wasn't working, I tried setting the orientation and page
> size as this could be 8 1/2 X 11 or 8 1/2 X 14.

I thought that might have been the case.

>> What, exactly, do you get for a page size on output?
>
> My output is portrait 8 1/2x11.

Okay.

>> Is there enough room on the form to contain both "or" and "sz"?
>
> The 2 dummy fields are located in the header and are not printable.  Does
> this make a difference as these 2 fields are undefined?

What do you mean by "not printable"?

>> If you send the output to a file, without the "PDF:" prefix, filePro will output the
>> raw FPML code.  Do you see the tags you placed?
>
> Checked and sz was there but not or.

Perhaps you didn't leave enough room for "or"?

>> Finally, note that if you are always putting these codes on the form, why not
>> just put them on the form itself, rather than in fields placed on the form?
>
> I have not done this before.  If not that, how does one "put them on the form"?
>
> I did set "allow embedded FPML on form to Y.

Simply put the FPML code on the form itself.

For example, I have an invoice form that has this as the first two lines:

=====
<page size="A4" orientation='portrait'>
<image file="invoice.png" x="center" y="center" height="792" width="612">
=====

I also have this in the middle of the form:

=====
<image height="100" width="scale" file="images/*10              ">
=====


> I put <page size="letter" orient="landscape"'> In the header instead of
> *or and this worked fine except I needed to move my heading down one line
> and reset my tabs.

Okay.

> I just started working with this option and am trying to figure this out
> how to handle using the PDF print function.
>
> With the correction suggested, pdf was created in landscape.  However,
> there are no page breaks.  Do I need to count output  lines and then
> force a page break? I realize that modern page printers will handle page
> breaks but they won't necessarily be where I want them.

Are you saying you ended up with just a 1-page PDF, with the text going "off 
the bottom"?


-- 
Kenneth Brody