Converting binary data into PDF

[malkishtini]

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your response.

Just to make it clear, I'm looking for a way to convert the binary report (which is a result of the brainy data pdfdriver) to a pdf file "outside" Omnis.

I'm sorry if I was not clear enough in my initial email/question.

Best regards,
Mayada
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Indeed.  And this example should help Das as well.

Two birds with one stone, fantastic!

Mike




Mike Matthews

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On 28 May 2020, at 21:02, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com<mailto:doug at artsman.com>> wrote:

by binary data, I assume you mean reports.

so you can send a report to a window and then use a report binary to populate it.


that is just using $cdevice and assinging it to memory.

Do $cdevice.$assign($devices.Memory)

Do $prefs.$reportdataname.$assign('')
Do $prefs.$reportdataname.$assign(nam(iReportBinary))


from memory — you have a report you can assign to another $device.


so we send it to brainydata’s   pdfDevice … and thats it.



Do $devices.[kDevPdf].$setparam(kDevPdfFileName,tempPathName)     ;; V92004 use kdevpdf
Set reference CurrentDevice to $cdevice ;; restore the device after
Do $cdevice.$assign($devices.[kDevPdf])     ;; V92004
Do $cinst.$print
Do $cdevice.$assign(CurrentDevice).   ;; restore device

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On May 28, 2020, at 12:48 PM, malkishtini <malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi $all,
I'm using brainy data pdf driver for printing files to memory; which results in saving the report in a binary var that I send out as a response from an Omnis API.

Now we need to convert binary variable to a pdf.
Any one has done this or something similar before and was able to print the pdf successfully from binary var? if yes, what tools you used?

Thank you,
Mayada


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