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Samples/Examples in documentation are broken

Wed, 2014-12-10 19:46 — DiverGuy

I need to have more control over reports and it was suggested that I download and use PDFInclude.

I've downloaded it and carefully followed the steps in the setup documentation.

However, when I try to run some of the sample/example programs I get a variety of error messages; some indicating mismatched parameters.

The first error is for 2 calls that are missing "RUN"

Then...

/* custlist.p - sample PDF generation */

*Mismatched number of parameters passed to routine pdf_load_font pdf_inc.p (3234)

When I fix that error by adding "" in the call, i get another error.

It seems that converting from standard PROGRESS output streams to a PDF document will be quite involved. It would be nice to have working examples.


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Wed, 2017-07-12 17:50 — NoblePursuits

Reading Content from an Existing (External) PDF

I have been trying to put together some infrastructural code to read content from "any" PDF, using PDFInclude. I get all of the "DICT" and "ARRAY" stuff ok, but so far haven't been able to use "pdf_ext_get_path" to return any real user content from a PDF. Does anyone have any code snippets I could use to extract some data? I just need to see the series of pdf_ext_get_path invocations to go from /root to a sample data element, showing how you traverse the PDF structure.