PDF Include and using an editor widget to replace text

[Cecil]

Hi all

I've been using the PDF Include library for a while now and I found a small problem/bug when using it on an AppServer.

When the remote procedure creates a PDF document everything is created OK, except the Total Page Number is not being populated.

After a few hours of code review of pdf_inc.p (ChangePageText procedure) I found that is uses and editor widget to replace certain text within a file. However I found running on an AppServer this fails without any error messages. I have fixed the bug by using the copy-lob statement and the replace function.

1. Copy the file content into a LONGCHAR using COPY-LOB.
2. Replace the text using the REPLACE function.
3. Using the Copy-lob statement again, copy the LONGCHAR to the file conntent.

Question is: Why would using an editor widget on an AppServer fail to work? Is it because the AppServer is running in batch mode?

I have version 3.3.3 of PDFInclude. Who is currently maintaining this code because it looks like it has not be touched for year?

 

[punterweger]

The person who wrote the code was killed in a motorcylce accident a couple of years back. No one has been maintaining PDFinclude. Also, if you are using PDF verions 8 of greater than you will need to save the files as version 7 or earilier.

 

[Cecil]

It's sad to hear that.

 

[tamhas]

Actually, Gordon Campbell, the original developer of PDFInclude, died of cancer in May of 2006.

There is still a forum on the PEG for it and it is available from OE Hive where there are comments and help available.