Hello, I want to export my xojo report output to pdf. I have got dynapdf plugin. Can somebody help me with some sample code to export report output to pdf ?
Thanks in advance.
I looked at the link and did not find things which I was looking for. My Xojo report is taking data from database. I need to convert that output to pdf.
Are you wanting to create everything about the PDF in code? That’s often very challenging. It can be easier to design a PDF template in a word processor then fill it in with the data. I use a program called PDF Editor Pro to create the fields in the PDF. The MBS plug-in comes with an example of code that will fill in the fields.
Deepak, maybe you try first with checking the example projects.
We include 144 example projects currently.
A few show how to use table class which may help for reports.
Is it not possible to export xojo report output directly to pdf without creating PDF template ?
It’s possible. I was merely suggesting another alternative.
how can I do that ? Can you help ?
Deepak, do you write for Mac Platform only?
others as well like windows…
… use the dark side of force in using shell console 
On windows you still need a PDFprinter (I suggest http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator) but on Mac (and Linux aswell) cupsfilter is a handy solution for creating PDFs directly. Just check out this snippet and replace “EXPORT” with your HTML formated output string and “filename” with the export Filename.
Dim f as FolderItem
Dim t as TextOutputStream
Dim s as new Shell
Dim fileplace as string
Dim filename as string
Dim EXPORT as String // Your Output String as HTML
f = SpecialFolder.Temporary.Child(filename)
t = f.CreateTextFile
t.Write ConvertEncoding(EXPORT, Encodings.UTF8)
t.close
#if TargetWin32
if f <> nil then
fileplace = "RUNDLL32.EXE MSHTML.DLL,PrintHTML """ + f.Parent.ShellPath + "\" + filename + """"
s.execute fileplace
end if
#elseif TargetMacOS
if f <> nil then
fileplace = "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter "+ f.Parent.ShellPath + "/" + filename + " > " + f.Parent.ShellPath + "/" + filename.NthField(".",1) + ".pdf"
s.execute fileplace
s.execute("open " + f.Parent.ShellPath + "/" + filename.NthField(".",1) + ".pdf")
end if
#endif
I understood that dynapdf works for all the three platform. Is it true ? Also, do we have some example code to convert/export xojo report output to pdf using dynapdf ?
we have no examples for connecting to report engine.
If you report using Bob Keeney’s Shorts product, you can use DynaPDF there.
[quote=39518:@Christian Schmitz]we have no examples for connecting to report engine.
If you report using Bob Keeney’s Shorts product, you can use DynaPDF there.[/quote]
Christian have you a sample of dyna pdf for printing a standard xojo report document?
I don’t think so. We can just use NSPrintInfoMBS class to modify printer setup on Mac to redirect to PDF file.
That’s a great tip!