PDF output

[Richard Kreiss]

There are a number of small issues with the filePro PDF engine.

I have been working on a form  for my community and having to make adjustments to get the output to look like I want it.  Part of the problem is using proportional fonts which make setting the page width difficult.  Also, with the default page size having a 1/2 inch margin, again that make things difficult.  Also, although most measurements are in points (1/72 of an inch), the move to command if used move lines up or down are  in lines not points.  This does make it easy to adjust things up or down, but is not consistent.  However, by using point size, one can make finite adjustments for locations.

I think most of us have run into the situation where the defined page size has little relation to the actual paper size.  If one is using a 12 cpi font, the page width can be wider then when using a 10- CPI font.  As I indicated, using proportional fonts makes this more difficult to calculate.

Richard Kreiss


> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Fairlight via
> Filepro-list
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 4:14 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: output
> 
> Without throwing an error?!  *weary sigh*
> 
> That's some awesome sanity checking...
> 
> m->
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list thus
> spoke:
> > Yeah - I can't answer for Windows filepro, but the behavior under
> > Linux might give some clues.  If I omit the path and just try to
> > output the filename, it writes it to the current working directory.
> > If it doesn't have permission to write it there, it seems to have
> > thrown the output away (based on my tests using the find command).
> >
> > On 6/13/18 3:50 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> > >If the colon was missing, I would assume relative to the current
> > >working directory at the time you started the filePro binary which
> > >performed the action.  If you specified only a filename for the
> > >location, then I'd expect it to be named (assuming you said
> > >DPDFfilename.txt) DPDFfilename.txt.  If you had pathing information,
> > >I'd expect it to have tried to store relative to the starting point.
> > >
> > >m->
> > >
> > >On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 07:25:32PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
> thus spoke:
> > >>Having an issue that maybe someone can help me with.
> > >>
> > >>Create a PDF output using the -P DPF:[Location] on the command line.  The
> output runs but no pdf file is created.
> > >>
> > >>I tracked down part of the issue to an error in my command line.  I had
> omitted the color after the drive letter and before the backslash.  Once
> corrected, the output file was created where specified.
> > >>
> > >>My question is: Where did filePro try to or create the output file?   FilePro
> did not show an error that it was unable to create the output file.  Therefore, I
> am assuming (bad word) that the output went somewhere.  But where is a
> mystery.
> > >>
> > >>I did check all possible temp directories(folders).  PFTMP is set to c:\PFTEMP
> which exists.
> > >>
> > >>I have asked Fp support this question and have not received an answer.
> That make me think that there may be a bug in the PDF creation routine.  Most
> ither times filePro will put up an error message when it can't create the output
> file.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Richard Kreiss
> > >>GCC Consulting
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