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Alternatives to Using Adobe Acrobat for Send Mail from a Screen Print in GP2013R2?

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Posted on by RussK 1,875

Is anyone aware of alternatives to using Adobe Acrobat (and its steep licensing costs) when using the Send To> Mail Recipient (PDF) from a print-to-screen window? Right now, GP is running via remoteapp on a terminal server, and putting Acrobat on the terminal server requires licensing for each user, whether they need it or not. Pretty expensive. Are there any tested and known good options out there?

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    babubaskaran@outlook.com Profile Picture
    babubaskaran@outloo... 12 on at

    Hi

    No alternative for this issue.  But once you upgrade to GP 2013 you can email word document and no need for adobe writer.

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    Mahmoud Saadi Profile Picture
    Mahmoud Saadi 32,738 on at

    No Alternatives

    Here is an answer by a MS engineer in a previous post

    ”Which free pdf writer would you prefer? Can you guarantee that in a year that it will still be available? Does this pdf engine have the ability to basically notify the caller that it's finished so Dexterity can pick up the file and attach it to the email? From what I understand, getting Dexterity the ability to use the PDF Distiller from Adobe was quite difficult (not to "print" to it of course since it is just a "Printer") to get and hook up to the email. While I can totally see why being able to use a free pdf engine is a "good thing" - nothing beats free - I doubt it is a simple as you suspect. And then to make it work with "any" pdf writer would seem a bit unlikely- you'd have to pick a few different ones at best. And then you'd have people crying foul about Microsoft getting with certain providers of these PDF writers and so on and so on”

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