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Greeting,

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

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Suresh Kulla 50,233 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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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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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.

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RE: Adding another page on PDF file

What error are you getting using that application ?

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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

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Suresh Kulla 50,233 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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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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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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Adding another page on PDF file

Good advice. I'll have to give it a try.

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