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Adding another page on PDF file

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Greeting,

Is it possible to add another page on PDF file which is located on external path, when generating report.

Thanks

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  • Boston Profile Picture
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    Adding another page on PDF file
    Good advice. I'll have to give it a try.
  • Sarav Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    Hi,

    I tried the same approach. It's working well if the Pdf paths defined to ProcessStartInfo.Arguments is hardcoded like mentioned and I'm facing issue if I'm using it through variables. I believe there is some issue in the quotes.

    The following is the code which I used. Request your guidance on it.

    ProcessStartInfo := ProcessStartInfo.ProcessStartInfo('C:\Program Files (x86)\Metaist\pdfmerge\bin\pdfmerge.exe');

    ArgumentPath := ''+'-o "'+NewPDFFile+'" "'+ PDFFile1 +'" "'+PDFFile2+'"';

    ProcessStartInfo.Arguments := ArgumentPath;

    ProcessStartInfo.UseShellExecute := FALSE;

    ProcessStartInfo.CreateNoWindow := TRUE;

    ProcessStartInfo.WindowStyle := ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

    ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput := TRUE;

    Process := Process.Process;

    Process.StartInfo(ProcessStartInfo);

    Process.Start;

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    Below is the code which will merge file1 and file2 as out.pdf 

    These are variable declarations

    ProcessStartInfo - DotNet - System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo.'System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'

    Process  - DotNet - System.Diagnostics.Process.'System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'


    ProcessStartInfo := ProcessStartInfo.ProcessStartInfo('C:\Program Files (x86)\Metaist\pdfmerge\bin\pdfmerge.exe');
    ProcessStartInfo.Arguments := '-o "c:\temp\out.pdf" "C:\Temp\file1.pdf" "C:\Temp\file2.pdf"';
    ProcessStartInfo.UseShellExecute := FALSE;
    ProcessStartInfo.CreateNoWindow := TRUE;
    ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput := TRUE;
    Process := Process.Process;
    Process.StartInfo(ProcessStartInfo);
    Process.Start;

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    Please try to use processInfo instead of Shell to run the program. For example please check below

    community.dynamics.com/.../executing-external-programs

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    What error are you getting using that application ?

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    Emp.RESET;

    Emp.SETRANGE("Employee No.",No);

    Emp.SETRANGE(Active,TRUE);

    IF Emp.FIND('-') THEN

     REPEAT

            CLEAR(R_Contract);

            CLEAR(FileManagement);

            R_Contract.SetParam(No,TODAY);

            R_Contract.SETTABLEVIEW(Emp);

            //filename:='C:\Temp\PayList-'+T_Employee."First Name"+' '+T_Employee."Last Name"+'.pdf';

           // filename:='\\HR\c\NAV2016\Platna Lista-'+Emp."First Name"+' '+Emp."Last Name"+'.pdf';

           filename:='C:\Temp\'+Emp."Employee No."+'.pdf';

           filename2:='C:\Temp\1031.pdf';

            R_Contract.SAVEASPDF(filename);

            FileManagement.DownloadToFile(filename,filename);

            IFi:='"'+filename+'"'+',';

            OFi:='"'+filename2+'"';

             MergePDFFiles(IFi+OFi,'C:\Temp\Result.pdf');

     UNTIL Emp.NEXT=0;

    CLEAR(WshShell);

    HRSetup.GET;

    CMD_LineTxt:=STRSUBSTNO('%1 output=%2 input=%3',HRSetup."PDF Merge Tool",OutputFileName,InputFileName);

    dumyInt:=0;

    runMod:=FALSE;

    CREATE(WshShell,FALSE,TRUE);

    WshShell.Run(CMD_LineTxt);

    SLEEP(3000);

    CLEAR(WshShell);

    This is code i used but it doesn't work. I have problem with pdfmerge application. If you could propose some application that will resolve my problem.

  • Verified answer
    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
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    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    I am not sure if you can print that but you can use an utility called PDF merge to merge two files after you saving your report into PDF

    github.com/.../pdfmerge

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