Comments on: Adobe's PDF-generation (and customer service-) FAIL http://scottbush.net/design/adobes-pdf-generation-and-customer-service-fail/ Notes on web development (and a few other topics) Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Scott Bush » How .htaccess, PHP & PEAR, and PDFs saved the day (and thousands of dollars) http://scottbush.net/design/adobes-pdf-generation-and-customer-service-fail/#comment-822 Scott Bush » How .htaccess, PHP & PEAR, and PDFs saved the day (and thousands of dollars) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:46:18 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=784#comment-822 [...] tools, nor do I think a solution couldn't be found using them (Adobe's Acrobat 9, however, has an issue I did rant about). But after hearing often that messages were mysteriously choking the Exchange mail server, I [...] [...] tools, nor do I think a solution couldn't be found using them (Adobe's Acrobat 9, however, has an issue I did rant about). But after hearing often that messages were mysteriously choking the Exchange mail server, I [...]

]]> By: Tanner Ellen http://scottbush.net/design/adobes-pdf-generation-and-customer-service-fail/#comment-821 Tanner Ellen Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:35:06 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=784#comment-821 You can actually do exactly what you want with filemaker pro. You could import your data into a filemaker database and then script it to save each record as a pdf that is named whatever you want. I would assume the filename would be the persons name. If you want I could bust something out in just a couple of minutes. I could even make it a runtime so you wouldn't even need filemaker pro. All I would need to know is what you wanted the output to look like and what data fields you needed on the form. You can actually do exactly what you want with filemaker pro. You could import your data into a filemaker database and then script it to save each record as a pdf that is named whatever you want. I would assume the filename would be the persons name.

If you want I could bust something out in just a couple of minutes. I could even make it a runtime so you wouldn’t even need filemaker pro. All I would need to know is what you wanted the output to look like and what data fields you needed on the form.

]]> By: Scott Bush http://scottbush.net/design/adobes-pdf-generation-and-customer-service-fail/#comment-820 Scott Bush Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:10:13 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=784#comment-820 I completely agree, and that would be a very useful feature. That functionality would allow for a lot more flexibility and essentially eliminate any string manipulation later if you wanted to set up a link to the generated file or attach it to an e-mail. You could instead reference a unique ID from the data file and know that your generated file would match it. Yes, that would be better... but I'd settle for a properly-implemented numbering scheme ;-) I completely agree, and that would be a very useful feature. That functionality would allow for a lot more flexibility and essentially eliminate any string manipulation later if you wanted to set up a link to the generated file or attach it to an e-mail. You could instead reference a unique ID from the data file and know that your generated file would match it. Yes, that would be better… but I’d settle for a properly-implemented numbering scheme ;-)

]]> By: Brandon Koeller http://scottbush.net/design/adobes-pdf-generation-and-customer-service-fail/#comment-819 Brandon Koeller Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:04:46 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=784#comment-819 This is what I wanted to say: You know what would make the most sense? The ability to programmatically access the pdf export functionality from the command line, and be able to specify a data parameter from the documents you are spooling to pdf to drive the name...like a person's name! DeansLetter-BrandonKoeller.pdf would be the /right/ kind of name you'd want, yes? I'd be curious to know how you were interacting with reader though. From the web? I wonder if you could have wrapped the pdf export process to do a rename after the export? Smoochies! This is what I wanted to say: You know what would make the most sense? The ability to programmatically access the pdf export functionality from the command line, and be able to specify a data parameter from the documents you are spooling to pdf to drive the name…like a person’s name! DeansLetter-BrandonKoeller.pdf would be the /right/ kind of name you’d want, yes? I’d be curious to know how you were interacting with reader though. From the web? I wonder if you could have wrapped the pdf export process to do a rename after the export? Smoochies!

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