Good stuff chicks (as usual). I already had pdftk but I was unaware of pdfview It does make looking at the guts of a PDF a little less of an eye strain.

Thanks

sb

I would not call it debugging a PDF,,, I do a number of things:

One thing I’ve done is to create a simple Delphi project that includes all of the QuickPDF source files. This makes it easy to step through  the code and see how QuickPDF handles various circumstances.

Another thing I do is decompressing the PDF and then view it with a good text editor (I use slick-edit). The non-stream elements of an uncompressed PDF are human readable as text although the specification is somewhat cryptic and frequently requires that I have the PDF specification handy as reference. I am relatively new to the PDF spec, however it is getting easier with practice.

sb

Hmmmmm....

Thanx for that swb1. Not really what I wanted to hear. :-/

I have in the meantime found a nice FREE PDF viewer that serves my purpose.

http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm

It does not seem to be prepared to recognise the form fields but does print the document which is what I was after.

Another nice feature is that it can be used as an ActiveX control also with a nice list of Methods and Properties.

Thanx again for your help.

I would still be interested in what you use to "debug" a PDF file please.

Cheers,

Mark Bailey

Mark,

To clarify, (for anyone else reading this)  your document won’t print with Adobe Reader. It does, in fact, print through QuickPDF.

One of the key differences between the two is that QuickPDF uses GDI+ to render the document to a DIB then sends the DIB to the print queue. Adobe typically sends the print job as a postscript file. Which is why QuickPDF Print jobs are 10x the size of the same print job through Adobe.

That does not necessarily explain your problem because even when I set Adobe to “print as image” it still does not like your document.

The only thing I can suggest is to try removing elements from your document until it works. Then start adding things back in until it stops working. You may gain some clues about what is happening.

Regards,

Hi swb1,

I have tried to output the file with RenderToFile as a bmp and that works ok.

I have checked the Securty Info on the file and it says that Printing is Fully Allowed.

I have Form Fields in the Document when I save it. Not sure if that might be causing a problem. Is there any way I can check?

I have tried setting encrypting the file with permission - Can Print to no avail.

I have set all created Form Fields to Printable with SetFormFieldPrintable. Still no go.

Running out of ideas here. :-/

Cheers,

Mark Bailey

I was going to suggest “RenderDocumentToFile”, however.. Adobe won’t print it? That *IS* weird! Are you saying that Adobe displays it ok but won’t print it? I’m stumped. I suppose you could still try “RenderDocumentToFile” and see if you get anything on the output side.

Please send me a copy pdfguy[at]dashdev[dot]com I would like to run through the debugger and see where fails.

Regards,

sb