PDF documents started to appear in black and white

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ryancairns
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PDF documents started to appear in black and white

Post by ryancairns »

Hi,

We have been using Amyuni PDF Convertor v2.50 for around 6 months with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

I have recently noticed that documents are being converted to black/white or greyscale. I don't know much about PDFs to even determine the difference.

Documents used to appear in colour and my code has not changed since we started using Amyuni.

I read somewhere that this might be some incompatibility with the latest version of Adobe?

Can anybody shed any light on the matter? I can provide more details and code if necessary.

Many thanks,

Ryan
ryancairns
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Post by ryancairns »

Was using the search term "black white" and not finding mucgh today but after searching for the word "color" finding a lot more topics.

So I have discovered that changing my default printer to a colour printer resolves this issue. Perhaps Amyuni have fixed this in a later version.
Which leads me onto my next question.

I am unable to get Navision working with v3.0. Does anyone know much about this? I saw some topics which I will have to study more about incompatibilities. The original posted claimed his issue was resolved by changing to v2.5.

Please post if you have any info - many thanks.
Joan
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Post by Joan »

Hello,

Are you using version 3.02?

What is the problem you are getting?

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ryancairns
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Post by ryancairns »

Whe using version 3.02 I get the message
"You cannot print to PDFPRINTER winspool LTP1:."

My code in NAV (C/AL language) which works fine (apart from black & white issue) in Amyuni version 2.5:

PDFConv.FileNameOptions(3);
PDFConv.Orientation(1);
PDFConv.SetDefaultConfig;
PDFConv.DefaultDirectory(rCompanyInfo."PDF Stored Documents Directory");
PDFConv.SetDefaultPrinter;

//variable tFilename previously set
PDFConv.DefaultFileName:= tFilename;

//Call to print report goes here

PDFConv.FileNameOptions(0);
PDFConv.RestoreDefaultPrinter;
PDFConv.DriverEnd;


Thanks
Joan
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Post by Joan »

Hello,

The error you are getting is not generated by our driver, it seems like an error generated by your application.

Please check the following however:

1 - That you are calling EnablePrinter() right before your Print command.

2 - That the printer name you are specifying in your code is the same as the actual name of the PDF Printer installed on your system.

3 - That the activation code you are using is for version 3.02 of the PDF Converter
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sprezzatura
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Re: PDF documents started to appear in black and white

Post by sprezzatura »

I have seen this problem in our app. The reason you are seeing B&W is that even though your data is in colour, PDF Converter will show it to you the way it's going to appear on the B&W printer that you are using as destination - that is, in shades of grey.

You need to initialize all the printer parameters, including the colour attribute.

See this post: http://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2252.
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