best way to email report?

[db2]

I have a report that I'm looking to email as opposed to fax. What's the easiest way to achieve this?

Any and all advice appreciated.

Thanks!

d

 

[GaryPanic]

easiest and cheapest is to pdf it out

get a free pdf printer (from the internet ) add it to your printers and set the report to print to it.

if you want something fancier - trawl through the samples - there are some good samples of rtf . but these then are unsecured and editable .

if you need it to be word editable then check sample codes on how to do this

 

[db2]

I tried this method using PrimoPDF and everything worked great until I sent the resulting pdf to another user using a macintosh computer and the pdf opened looking like hieroglyphics. I'm assuming it was an embedded font issue, but instead of using a default font it spat out some random data. Can anyone confirm my suspicion or offer any suggestions?

Thanks,

David

 

[GaryPanic]

no this should not of happen
basically a pdf becomes like a photo of the doc, and should have been fine -
pdf's I have used have never had a problem -
the only problem I have come accross is when opening a pdf over a sloppy network that it will look like blocks of blank ink .

does the Macintosh also have a pdf printer or did it lose the file extentions
must have .pdf at the end .

you can get away with this in Windows enviroment most of the time - but some times if the extention is lost overtyped or dots. are put in the file name this can cause real grief
a report called
preview.pdf
would work but one call preview.11.06.07pdf would probably throw a fit and look like hieroglyphics when you open it

the daft thing is that it might work sent to a windows enviromenet but not to a mac

so double check this first ..
then you could go to .rtf (rich text format i think) which access does -( but this is unsecured and slightly sloppy) and you can tweak your system to email straight out of access using this format it becomes an attached doc -( check samples on how to do this)

if no joy come back and one of the gurus might help- i am just a hackeer who stiches stuff together

 

[db2]

I searched around for information regarding this issue and found the following:

http://forums.primopdf.com/showthread.php?t=182&highlight=font

I changed this setting but am still having issues. It seems as if it is a font embedding issue but I cannot find a resolution yet.

Anyone else run into this problem?

Thanks again for your help Gary!

 

[rpadams]

I ran into similar problems with a number of "free" pdf writers I found on the web. I eventually bit the bullet and BOUGHT Adobe Professional Writer. They seem to have anticipated cross platform problems and solve them before you even know you had one. Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.

 

[db2]

it appears to have been a font substitution issue. In Printers>properties>printing preference > advanced > graphic > true type font options > should be set to "download as soft font" rather than "substitute as device font", and in document options post script options true type font should be set to "outlines".

These options both needed to be changed for the pdf to be viewable in mac osx's default "Preview" program. Supposedly these don't matter if viewing with Acrobat Reader for mac.

However for anyone else having this problem, these two solutions were the answers in my case.

Thanks again Gary for your helpful advice.

 

[GaryPanic]

Hey I try
as long as it's sorted
g

 

[Fifty2One]

I ran into similar problems with a number of "free" pdf writers I found on the web. I eventually bit the bullet and BOUGHT Adobe Professional Writer. They seem to have anticipated cross platform problems and solve them before you even know you had one. Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.

What has worked for me cross PC-Mac is either
CutePDF Writer
or my personal fave for Access...
Stephan Lebans code [A2000ReportToPDF] http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm

used on a billing program to email invoices to clients with zero negative returns from clients.

 

[GaryPanic]

I use cute - so I have never had this problem