Liveware Publishing Support Forum

Hello,____My reports to pdf run fine when executed from within R&R and the resulting PDF is fine.____When I try to run them via the runtime executable, they appear to run a-ok (I can see this via the ri_status=T setting) all they way through to the end where I see ^Printing to Adobe PDF on File^.____The job completes with no error indication but the resulting pdf is zero bytes and when I click on the file I get a Acrobat error that says it is either an unsupported file type or the file has been damaged.____Any ideas?____Thanks.

If you use most distillers, when you print to a PDF from the runtime and specify an output file, you^re not actually getting a PDF. What R&R makes is a PostScript file.____The exception is the Amyuni http://www.amyuni.com/en/enduser/pdfcreatorend/ converter, which is the one we used to include with R&R before they told us we were violating their licensing (since R&R runtime components can be freely distributed by developers, but not their software).____You can see that this is the case by using the designer and printing a PDF using the Adobe PDF printer and selecting "Print to File." The file you create can be viewed in Notepad and it will be a PostScript file.____This file can be fed into the distiller and turned into a PDF.____I^m not sure why you^re seeing a 0 byte file, but you should try different settings. I^ve gotten it to work for various clients, so unless there^s some rights issue, it should be possible.