Recommendation needed?

Sorry... you won't find any product with the same enfolding sum of functions.
...And "just want to create pdf-files" is one of the most difficult things in ;-)
But there are a lot of products on the market ... for a very different price.
Have a look at:
http://www.planetpdf.com/
http://www.publishing-worker.com/

Best regards,
Ingo

Hi!
A faster machine can't be the solution - you don't know what your customers are using. Don't beat me: Perhaps it's not necessary that your app needs three hours? Perhaps you can post essential code-parts here ... so somebody can have a look over it?
Best regards,
Ingo

OK, this code makes no sense. Why would you create a form field, fill it with text, then immediately flatten it? No wonder this is slow. Whey not just draw text directly on the page, and skip all the form field stuff? I think you'll find it to be much faster.

Faster yet (probably) would be to create a template (once) with all the required form fields. Each time you need to produce a PDF, simply load the template, fill and flatten the fields with your data, and save it with a new name.

chicks wrote: OK, this code makes no sense. Why would you create a form field, fill it with text, then immediately flatten it? No wonder this is slow. Whey not just draw text directly on the page, and skip all the form field stuff? I think you'll find it to be much faster. Faster yet (probably) would be to create a template (once) with all the required form fields. Each time you need to produce a PDF, simply load the template, fill and flatten the fields with your data, and save it with a new name.

If the fastest way is to create the template, so could you tell me know to create a template with form field and load up everytime when needed?

Thanks!

chicks wrote: You should only need to set the font once, then use DrawTextBox function instead of all those form field functions to accomplish the same thing. If you have a fixed number of pages to create, with static content, you generally use something like Word to create that, then distill to PDF with Adobe Acrobat, or one of the dozens of PDF "printers" available for free. Then load up this template in QuickPDF, loop through the pages and add your dynamic content with DrawTextBox. Should take a few seconds.

Thank again, the content is dynamic getting from the database

What I'm using is

Call QP.LoadFromFile("C:\template.pdf")

then using Call QP.ClonePages(1, 1, 1) to make the page appear on each page.

Does it correct?

I tried to replace my code with this

Old code
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B2form = QP.NewFormField("BUSINESS#", 1)
B2form = QP.SetFormFieldStandardFont(1, 1)
B2form = QP.SetFormFieldBounds(1, 130, 743, 250, 40)
B2form = QP.SetFormFieldValueByTitle("BUSINESS#", tImporterBusiness)
B2form = QP.FlattenFormField(1)

New Code
========

B2form = QP.AddStandardFont(1)
B2form = QP.SetTextSize(10)

B2form = QP.DrawText(130, 743, tImporterBusiness)


But the problem is the even I declared both hortizontal position as 743, but it show in different position output pdf file, any reason why?

Also, the drawtext function, don't have the width. height parameters, so how can restricted the length of my text field?

Thanks!

chicks wrote: Use DrawTextBox, not DrawText

Thank a lot,  I have one more problem and don't know how to solve it,

As i said, I use loadformfile to load up the template then use qp.clone instead of qp.newpage for all the rest of the page, everything ok except on the first page of each pdf file that I produced, always contain my template form.

Try to delete the first page before save the document, but once i did that  it delete all the template on each page as well, I guess because I use the clone command to clone the first page.

Any idea how to solve this, so I can save some paper instead of waste the paper on the firstpage.

Thanks!