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Adding another page on PDF file

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

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
    Boston 6 on at
    Adding another page on PDF file
    Good advice. I'll have to give it a try.
  • Sarav Profile Picture
    Sarav 408 on at
    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;

  • Verified answer
    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    Suresh Kulla 43,640 on at
    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;

  • Suggested answer
    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    Suresh Kulla 43,640 on at
    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

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    Suresh Kulla 43,640 on at
    RE: Adding another page on PDF file

    What error are you getting using that application ?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    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
    Suresh Kulla 43,640 on at
    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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