Stephen Lebans EMF and ReportToPDF

[david epsom dot com dot au]

An intermediate step in Stephan Lebans ReportToPDF application converts a
snp file to a temp file containing a number of emf's in some kind of
'structured storage'.

Is there a viewer for the structured storage/EMF/temp file? None of the
normal EMF viewers will display the contents of the temp file.

Since my application uses ReportToPDF to create PDF versions of the reports,
I could also include the intermediate format if it is a standard format.

(david)

 

[Stephen Lebans]

ReportToPDF exports the Report to Snapshot format. The Snapshot is
compressed using the standard Windows Installer compression API's. The
source code shows you how to uncompress the Snapshot file. You can then use
any of the standard Structured Storage Tools to view the data of the
component EMF's.
If you simply want to convert reports to EMF just use the ReportUtilities on
my site. I wrote this before I learned about Structured Storage so it
manually parses the binary data. I am planning on adding this capability to
the SSGetContents DLL that is included with the ReportToPDF archive. This
DLL I wrote uses Structured Storage to access the required Storage/Streams
from the embedded OLE objects.

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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
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[david epsom dot com dot au]

any of the standard Structured Storage Tools to view the data of the

component EMF's.

What are the standard Structured Storage Tools? I only know
Word, and I think it expects to find text in the document :~)


(david)

 

[Stephen Lebans]

The standard Structure Storage tools I was referring to start with the DOC
viewer included with Visual Studio. There are more advanced tools out there
and many of them are free but I always come back to the VS Doc viewer app.

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Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
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[david epsom dot com dot au]

Yes :~) (am easily amused)

(david)

The standard Structure Storage tools I was referring to start with the DOC
viewer included with Visual Studio. There are more advanced tools out
there and many of them are free but I always come back to the VS Doc
viewer app.

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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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[Stephen Lebans]

If you go down the very long and complex path to understanding Structured
Storage you won't have much time to be easily amused!<grin>

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Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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[basbijvoet]

I am trying to write code that extracts emf for each individual page contained in snp file (because I am trying to export Access 2003 multi page reports to powerpoint).

This is done by Stephen in tools A2K2ReportUtilities and A2000SnapshotToPDFver751, but code is contained in mde and dll respectively. Would you by any chance have the code for this step?
Thanks very much in advance,
Bas