Output reports to PDF Format

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I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report into PDF format. Any help would be great.
 
Any PDF driver will do that for you; such a driver installs as if it were a
printer and, when you elect to print a report, you simply select the PDF
driver.

I use a driver named PDF995 (http://www.pdf995.com); however, you can do a
search at Google on PDF drivers and find many from which to select.



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Cheryl Fischer, MVP Microsoft Access
Law/Sys Associates, Houston, TX


Alan Burstein said:
I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report into PDF format.
Any help would be great.
 
Alan:

Access has no built in way to do this as you know. The first thing you need
is a printer driver that outputs PDF files. There are many around including
Adobe's, Win2PDF (www.daneprairie.com), pdfFactory (www.fineprint.com),
PDF995 (www.pdf995.com), CutePDF etc. etc.

If you want to automate the process of outputting the file from within
Access, some of those drivers support doing that by allowing you to specify
a file name via code and some do not; you can search their dev documents on
that topic. If you want to save some time, you might look at our PDF and
Mail Library for Access on our web. It supports many of those drivers and
makes the automation process fairly easy and painless.
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Steve Arbaugh
ACG Soft
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg

Alan Burstein said:
I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report into PDF format.
Any help would be great.
 
I am trying to do the same thing. publishing in Word
distorts the formatting of the report

will be waiting, thanks in advance
-----Original Message-----
I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report
into PDF format. Any help would be great.
 
Hi

i'm using Acrobat and produce PDF files from Access reports by chosing File
/ Print - setting my printer the AcrobatPDFWriter and clicking Ok - works
really well.

However, i've heard that www.pdf995.com or www.docu-track.com are cheaper
(possibly free) PDF writing programs, but i've not tried them and have no
idea if they work with access.

Cheers
JulieD
 
PDF995 installs as a driver and will appear as a Printer when you click
File|Print. It is free, as long as you do not mind a "nag screen"; or
$9.95 (US) to get rid of the "nag".

It works very well with Access; however, if you want to automate it (for
example, by naming files using VBA code) you may need a third-party add-in,
such as the one mentioned in SA's post.
 
We sell a product similiar to the one mentioned by SA. Also we sell a
product to automate web reporting via PDF over the web.

Currently we are giving away source code for the batch reporting module at
the regular $99.95 price. Buy regular get source code for free.

Report Server is by far our biggest seller.

We also sell source code for both,
Mark Andrews
RPT Software
http://www.rptsoftware.com
 
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