PDFs & revlets

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PDFs & revlets

Post by arkstar » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:26 pm

Does printing to a pdf work in revlets? (4.50-dp2)
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Re: PDFs & revlets

Post by bn » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:18 am

Yes,
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Re: PDFs & revlets

Post by arkstar » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:54 am

Are the steps different than a local installation. My stack works perfectly from within the ide and compiled, yet when I posted it on a webserver,
it did not work. Any suggestions?

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Re: PDFs & revlets

Post by bn » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:11 pm

arkstar,
sorry, I did not read your post correctly, I thought you were asking whether print to pdf works in 4.5 dp2, which it does as you mention in your latest post.
I did not see revlet.
I did not try this, but I doubt that it will work since printing to pdf in rev uses an external. This external is probably not available to the revlet.
Maybe someone else has a definitive answer.
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Re: PDFs & revlets

Post by Janschenkel » Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:24 pm

Given that PDF printing is only available in revEnterprise 4.5 and the revWeb plug-in is still version 4.0, the new feature is probably not available yet inside a revlet; other than that, you'd also have to ask for printing and local file permissions to make this work in a revlet.

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