DAS 4.1/Adobe Acrobat

Is there anyone out there using DAS V4.1.x with Adobe Acrobat to distribute reports? We have written scripts to refresh a report, output it to Adobe and then e-mail it. We are using DAS on an NT V4 with service pack 5. We are experiencing an intermittent printer problem - the distiller printer keeps getting stuck with print jobs in it and causing DAS to stall. The server then needs re-booting before DAS can run properly.

Has anyone experieenced similar problems or can anyone suggest why this might be happening?


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Jodie.

I used Adobe Acrobat and distiller with a script I wrote to generate PDF versions of reports to view through a web browser. I was using BO 4.1 at the time. The problem you might be having could be down to the resolution settings on Distiller being too high. I think the default is 600 dpi and this should be changed to 300. Also check the JPEG settings, I cnaged them from VERY HIGH to MEDIUM - HIGH. Generally have a check over as I found I could reduce the processing time from minutes to seconds by changing the settings in distiller.

Darren.

Is there anyone out there using DAS V4.1.x with Adobe Acrobat to distribute reports? We have written scripts to refresh a report, output it to Adobe and then e-mail it. We are using DAS on an NT V4 with service pack 5. We are experiencing an intermittent printer problem - the distiller printer keeps getting stuck with print jobs in it and causing DAS to stall. The server then needs re-booting before DAS can run properly.

Has anyone experieenced similar problems or can anyone suggest why this might be happening?


Listserv Archives (BOB member since 2002-06-25)

Hi,

I must also generate pdf using BCA. How do you do that in your script ?

TIA

Jodie.

I used Adobe Acrobat and distiller with a script I wrote to generate PDF versions of reports to view through a web browser. I was using BO 4.1 at the
time. The problem you might be having could be down to the resolution settings on Distiller being too high. I think the default is 600 dpi and this should be changed to 300. Also check the JPEG settings, I cnaged them from VERY HIGH to MEDIUM - HIGH. Generally have a check over as I found I could reduce the processing time from minutes to seconds by changing the settings in distiller.

Darren.

Is there anyone out there using DAS V4.1.x with Adobe Acrobat to distribute
reports? We have written scripts to refresh a report, output it to Adobe and then e-mail it. We are using DAS on an NT V4 with service pack 5. We are experiencing an intermittent printer problem - the distiller printer keeps getting stuck with print jobs in it and causing DAS to stall. The server then needs re-booting before DAS can run properly.

Has anyone experieenced similar problems or can anyone suggest why this might be happening?

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My script works in the following way.

  1. A list of pending jobs is stored in an Oracle table. 2. The script reads the table and opens a report - and populates any prompts with entries in the Oracle table.
  2. The report is generated and printed via the Adobe Distiller printer driver as a file to the hard disk.
  3. The file is renamed using the job ID primary key from the Oracle table. 5. Distiller finds the file and converts it to PDF.

I actually didn’t use DAS or BCA.

What you could do is set up the distiller printer driver on your BCA PC, so all files are saved to hard disk as .PS files. Then Distiller picks up the files and converts them to .PDF files.

Hope this helps.

Darren.

Hi,

I must also generate pdf using BCA. How do you do that in your script ?

TIA


Listserv Archives (BOB member since 2002-06-25)