The OpenEdge Hive

Hi

This would indeed be a very good idea to implement.

For this use case, we could think of a pdf_close2 with new options, like one not to wipe the information about the loaded template, thus being able to reuse it as-is from a new stream (with the same name). This would be the easier way.

first time:
run pdf_new("spdf", ...)
run pdf_open_PDF("spdf", ..., "myTemplate").
...
run pdf_use_PDF_page("spdf", "myTemplate", 1).
...
run pdf_close2("spdf", "keepExternal=myTemplate")

next times:
run pdf_new("spdf", ...)
...
run pdf_use_PDF_page("spdf", "myTemplate", 1).
...
run pdf_close2("spdf", "keepExternal=myTemplate")

plus may be a clean-up procedure at the very end.

I have to think about a way to generalize it a little bit, like using the same template for more than one stream without reparsing it.

Would you be interested by such a feature?

regards

Jice

Dittos to the yes. This would be a useful feature. I was a bit chapfallen at the overall lack of apparent performance of the reporting output, so anything to improve performance, even of the form filling/form reuse use-cases would be most welcome.