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Graham - 30 Oct 2005 21:35 GMT

Hello Evrebody,
I am trying to distribute a somewhat coplexe report
with subreports. It has to be delivered to many people
in Europe and North America. I have no idea what
operating systems all the receivers are running.
Someone indicated to me that the "Snapshot Viewer"
is what I want to use. From what I understand, all
the recievers will have to have the Viewer already
installed on their systems.
Microsoft indicates that it will work on most of their
Opereating systems.
But what about users with a Mac or Linux.
Are there other ways to email a report to people
who might not have any version of MsAccess?

Thanks for the Help

Graham

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Rick Brandt - 30 Oct 2005 23:42 GMT

> Hello Evrebody,
> I am trying to distribute a somewhat coplexe report
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>
> Graham

Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot Viewer
is strictly Windows.

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Tom Brown - 31 Oct 2005 03:04 GMT

CutePDF was the answer for me for sending and Access report to users in
Korea, Japan, and Canada.

It adds a "Cute PFD writer" to your Printers and you just print to it.
Check out http://www.CutePDF.com.

Tom

>> Hello Evrebody,
>> I am trying to distribute a somewhat coplexe report
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> Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot
> Viewer is strictly Windows.

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Tom Brown - 31 Oct 2005 03:51 GMT

Graham,

I just wanted to clarify that I am referring to the Freeware at
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp It's great!

Tom

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BruceM - 31 Oct 2005 15:33 GMT

Is there some other way of turning a report into a pdf than scanning a
printout as a pdf file? I have Acrobat 6, and can "Print" a Word document
to the Acrobat printer, but cannot do the same with a report snapshot. Is
there a way of converting an Access report snapshot directly to a pdf with
CutePDF (or any other program, for that matter)?

> Graham,
>
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>> Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot
>> Viewer is strictly Windows.

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Tom Brown - 01 Nov 2005 00:10 GMT

I just wanted to make sure we are talking about the same thing here. With
CutePDF (or I assume PrimoPDF), you just print any report (Word, Excel,
Access, PDF) and it prints to a file filename, not a piece of paper. You
don't get a hard copy and nothing needs to be scanned. That PDF file can
then be viewed with any platform that can use Adobe Reader.

Tom

> Is there some other way of turning a report into a pdf than scanning a
> printout as a pdf file? I have Acrobat 6, and can "Print" a Word document
[quoted text clipped - 30 lines]
>>> Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot
>>> Viewer is strictly Windows.

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BruceM - 31 Oct 2005 15:39 GMT

Oops. I just discovered that I can use the right-click option in My
Computer to accomplish the conversion.

> Graham,
>
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
>> Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot
>> Viewer is strictly Windows.

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Graham - 31 Oct 2005 15:39 GMT

Rick,
Thank you so much. I had no idea I could get a PDF writer
from companies other than Adobe. And free at that.
I was never prepared to pay hundreds of dollars for Acrobat.
I Googled for free PDF writers and downloaded PrimoPDF.
It seems to work fine so far. What I am really happy about
is that I can use this for ALL my apps. This is great.
I only wish I knew about this before. Thank You Very Much!

However it does bring to mind a Question.
If all these companies are able to offer this;
Why the @#$% can't Microsoft give us a simple solution
to view and share Access Reports across platforms without
having to distribute the Snapshot Viewer?
It just seems so ludicrous to me that after all these years of
Access being in the market place, they STILL can't give us
this simplicity!
Any how....
Again I have to thank you for pointing me to this S/W

Graham

> Buy or obtain a free PDF writer and send them a PDF file. The Snapshot Viewer
> is strictly Windows.

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