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[Bob Stahr]

Our accounting team has requested and enhancement for printing documents to PDF pdf files. (NAV-1644)

They would like, when they print any kind of document, and enter a range of document numbers,

to get NOT get all documents printed into a single PDF with a non-descriptive name.

They would like one pdf for each document with a name reflecting what it is and its number, like

Sales-Order-108832.pdf
Sales-Order-108833.pdf
Sales-Order-108834.pdf …
or
SalesInvoice-S12381.pdf
SalesInvoice-S12382.pdf
SalesInvoice-S12383.pdf …

They often need to send to a customer many dozens, hundreds or event 1000’s of documents and they need to be sent as separate files.

We have actually already done this as part of our SO RELEASE from OPEN status, if the Location is our primary Warehouse location we write a PDF to a folder now on a file share that is SO9999.pdf and we have written a print q that confirms the printer at the ware house is ready to print and sends each file to the printer or a back up printer if the primary printer is offline.

The other benefit we get out of this is when the printer sees separate files sent to it, it  understands how to print a 2,3 or more page document  duplex-ed, collated and stapled properly.

I was curious if anyone has already built a print to PDF routine that could be use like this across many (all) document types.

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Bob Stahr
Director ITS
Sunrise Identity
Bellevue WA
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[Paul Turner]

Yes we created such a routine using NovaPDF’s SDK.  We will probably rebuild this using Microsoft’s Print to PDF dll mainly so we don’t have to manage licenses on a 3rd party printer.  Or if we upgrade NAV we can then use NAV’s PDF printing functionality (which may be using the MS DLL; I haven’t seen it yet).

Our system prints and emails invoices nightly.  For customers with multiple invoices from that day, they are all separate PDFs and are all attached to a single email for the specified customer (if you have customers getting hundreds of docs this method probably wouldn’t work on a single email).  The nice thing about novaPDF SDK is the ability to specify the overlay at runtime.  So we can use the same function for invoices, credit memos, statements, order confirmations etc.

, I am interested in the print q function you created that checks whether the printer is available.  That sounds very helpful.

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Paul Turner
Liberty Mountain
Sandy UT
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[Rob Hansen]

Hi Bob –

When looking at this type of functionality, it’s definitely worth comparing the time/cost (and upgrade impact) versus using an add-on for NAV that provides this functionality (and much more).  There are several out there – Zetadocs Delivery, Easy PDF and our own DocumentPath add-on.  Just food for thought for anyone looking at this type of development effort and options worth considering.

DocumentPath provides this functionality (and a lot more) for all sales, purchase and service management documents.  It also provides functions to send advanced documents via email such as customer statements, EFT remittance advices and payroll stubs.

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Rob Hansen CPA, CMA
Partner
DynamicsPath
Toronto, ON Canada
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[Geovanny Fuentes]

You can create a main report in developer mode.

Then pass the report object to it with any filters.

That report object will generate and create single PDF Files.
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PDF Printer – Dynamics NAV Invoices

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Or here as people have done this many times.

Converting Office Files into PDF from Navision

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Converting Office Files into PDF from Navision Today in this post i will walkthrough how we can convert any MS Office File into PDF. It have been many time required to convert any attached file with the record in Navision to PDF format. To perform this action we will require a tool which can be downloaded from: OfficeToPDF download link :- http://officetopdf.codeplex.com/releases/view/118190… View this on KSD Consultancy >

Good luck.

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Geovanny Fuentes
San Diego CA
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