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How do you export Access Report to PDF in VBA?

Asked by: JoshinHtown

Hello All-  I have a VBA program that creates a Graph Report in Access.  I would like to see some code that will export this Report to a PDF and place it in a folder.  Thank you for your help on this in advance.

Regards,

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2008-02-14 at 11:20:00ID23164024
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Answers

 

by: TextReportPosted on 2008-02-14 at 11:48:13ID: 20896520

In Access 2007 I beleive that there is an option to export to PDF. In all previous versions you have to use a PDF Printer and there are various different programs such as CutePDF and PDF995 that have there own ways of doing this.
Cheers, Andrew

 

by: JoshinHtownPosted on 2008-02-14 at 11:56:52ID: 20896580

I need the VBA code for exporting to a Access Report to a PDF please..

Thanks

 

by: TextReportPosted on 2008-02-14 at 12:11:22ID: 20896691

What version of Access?

 

by: JoshinHtownPosted on 2008-02-14 at 12:14:31ID: 20896719

Access 2003 - thanks for any help..

Regards,

 

by: boag2000Posted on 2008-02-16 at 05:24:59ID: 20909483

There may be others that are better..., but I use:
http://www.cutepdf.com/

HTH

JeffCoachman

 

by: boag2000Posted on 2008-02-16 at 05:25:27ID: 20909485

...because its free!
:-O

 

by: TextReportPosted on 2008-02-16 at 05:42:41ID: 20909539

Dear JoshinHtown as stated previously there are a couple of options at least, Jeff has provided the website for CuteFTP and the website for PDF995 is http://www.software995.com/

I would suggest you take a look at both of these options and get one to work manually,they both rely on printing the report to a PDF Printer. You may nee to consult with your IT department or customers if they have any preference or restrictions on what you can do. You also need to consider the environment you are running in, for example CITRIX can be a real pain to configure the PDF995 software (I don't know about CuteFTP).

Then people can might be able to supply specific code for the one you have chosen.

With Access 2003 I believe you can use the Application.Printer methods not available in Access 2000 and previous versions where you have to change the Windows default printer or create a specific report for the PDF printer.

Hope this helps
Andrew

 

by: JoshinHtownPosted on 2008-02-16 at 13:37:12ID: 20911470

Hello- In light of Jeff's cutePDF.com link I will choose to use that.  So if I have that driver installed on my machine what code would I need to run in VBA to make an Access Report into a PDF document and place it into a folder?  Thanks for the help..

Regards,

Josh

 

by: boag2000Posted on 2008-02-16 at 22:19:59ID: 20913173

JoshinHtown,

You need to Download and RUN both the "Free Download" AND the "Free Converter".

After you run both, you will go to the Windows control-->Printers, and there should be a new "CutePDFWriter" printer installed.

Now all you have to do to print a PDF in Access is to simply select the "CutePDFWriter" as your printer.

Basically all PDF creators are printer "emulators".
The PDF software "Prints" the PDF to a file.

There are help files provided if you have any trouble installing. Check these first if you have any issues.

Let me know if you need anymore help

JeffCoachman

 

by: JoshinHtownPosted on 2008-02-18 at 06:08:55ID: 20919993

Hi guys- I'm trying to be clear on this but no one seems to be understanding me.. I need VBA code that will take a Access Report and print it to a PDF and place it in a folder.  I know this can do done in a If statement because I've done it in an excel before.  I do not know the Access objects so that's why I'm here asking for help.  Please let me know..

Regards,

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