Sending by PDF

david.weeks

Hello All

I want to send a document such as a statement in PDF format by email.
First, can Navision support this?
IF so, what approach should I take to put a statement into a PDF format?

Any ideas folks?

Thanks

Savatage

I guess you didn't search the forum.....



www.pdf995.com - free download allows you to select PDF995 as a printer option. It creates a PDF file.

www.pdfedit995.com - free download can automatically attach the PDF file to an email as an attachment.


......i'm sure other solutions will be posted right after this one.

A simple forum search for (PDF) will answer your questions

Savatage

oooh - i'm up to 180! :P

Sorcerer

For a little more comfort try this one: http://www.gotomaxx.com/cgi-bin/gm/site.cgi?lan=us

Rob_Hansen

Greetings -

We've developed an add-on to automate this process, since this topic seems to be a case of reinventing the wheel over and over.

You can review the product at http://www.altusbusinesssolutions.com

edwarsc

All of the above solutions sound great.

Here are some alternatives:

For alternatives, remember SourceForge.net for great freeware:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

For other free "Print to PDF", etc files, you can try this link (in addition to a Google search)

http://www.snapfiles.com/downloadfind.p ... n=s&st=pdf

For another supported, commercial solution that includes a PDF Print SERVER (!) you try Print2PDF at this site:

http://www.software602.com/store/print2pdf.html

You can Google for "free command line email" programs and end up with many great programs or take off the word "free" and look for commercial ones.

Best,

Sam Edwards

bvp

The virtual PDF printer is an easy solution.

Now my problem is how to send by mail a total batch of -for example- 100 invoices/reminders to 100 differten customers with 100 different mailadresses.
More special: i want a parameter in the customer table if the invoice/reminder should be printed or be send by e-mail.
And then the "print" command should make automaticly more emails with the separated PDF's.

Is there a solution?

Bert

edwarsc

Bert,

This sounds like an interesting challenge.

If you can find a print solution that allows you to pass the file name as a parameter, then it is obvious that you'd setup a loop that prints one invoice per email address, then emails the file as an attachment. I don't recall seeing a program like this.

If you cannot find the above solution, then it seems to me that your only remaining (reasonable) option is to use the PDF generating DLL that is available for free. Obviously, you'd have to do the work the old fashioned way: write one line of PDF per line of output. It is much more limited, but very capable. In this way, you'd create each PDF file programatically (most likely in the report) and email them, as you change Customers ID.

Let me know if you need someone to write this solution for you. If so, I'll need to know which version of Navision, etc. Just remember TANSTAFL (There Aint No Such Thing As a Free Lunch) .

Best,

Sam Edwards

Savatage

Just as an add-on here. We use E-ship. With Eship came a whole email package which included in the setup:

Email Setup
Email Rules
Email
Email Mapping Tables
Email Dataport

I have never had a chance to fool around with this option yet - I was wondering if anyone who has e-ship has set this puppy up. It looks like it can do what everyone seems to need.

ajhvdb

bvp wrote:

The virtual PDF printer is an easy solution.

Now my problem is how to send by mail a total batch of -for example- 100 invoices/reminders to 100 differten customers with 100 different mailadresses.
More special: i want a parameter in the customer table if the invoice/reminder should be printed or be send by e-mail.
And then the "print" command should make automaticly more emails with the separated PDF's.

Is there a solution?

Bert

In a few days we are releasing a AddOn which allows just what you ask. what we use is a pfd writer that understands embedded commands in the output to the pdf-writer.

Like: filename=file1, to=john@domain.com, splitpdf

We include all the code to handle the software: faxware, zetafax, faxmaker, pdfmailer, pdfprinter

Dean_Axon

hey bvp,

the solution you need has already been suggested to you ......

Sorcerer Posted: 29 Jul 2004 12:31 Post subject:

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For a little more comfort try this one: http://www.gotomaxx.com/cgi-bin/gm/site.cgi?lan=us

the professional version enables full intergration that easily deals with file names, email addresses etc...

its not the cheapest option around, but definately one of the fastest PDF creation utilities I have ever come across.

Rob_Hansen

bvp wrote:

The virtual PDF printer is an easy solution.

Now my problem is how to send by mail a total batch of -for example- 100 invoices/reminders to 100 differten customers with 100 different mailadresses.
More special: i want a parameter in the customer table if the invoice/reminder should be printed or be send by e-mail.
And then the "print" command should make automaticly more emails with the separated PDF's.

Is there a solution?

Bert

I just wanted to suggest you take a closer look at the add-on I suggested earlier in this trail. Our add-on adds a "Document Sending Method" field to the customer and vendor tables to indicate whether they receive hard copy, fax, or email invoices. There is then a link on the posted sales invoice form to send the document by the customer's preferred method. The website also provides sample code that could be used in a custom routine to send a batch of invoices by looping through each one to email it to the respective customer.

You can review it further at http://www.altusbusinesssolutions.com.

bvp

Thanx anyone for responding.
I see that there are several solutions. difficult ones and less difficult ones. Its clear that there comes more than just "a piece of code".

Ik will evaluate the possibilities and try to get the easiest (and cheapest) solution. It is just a (NICE!) feature i like to add in an add on we deliver

Bert

kneoATwork

Which solution did you choose for your job?

Let me know please, I have the same problem.

Urmas

The cheapest solution I assume would be using PDF Creator (available from http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm)
It is distributed under GPL and has worked well for me for a year or so.