PDF & XPS Now supported in Access Runtime!

Published 23 August 07 11:15 PM

Great news, you can now redistribute and use the PDF and XPS addin with your Runtime solution.  Our download page has been updated to reflect this fact.  Best of all, you don't need a new copy of the runtime to take advantage of this.  The Runtime's code has not been changed.  Your existing runtime solutions can now officially be distributed with the PDF and XPS addin by chaining the .msi for PDF and XPS into your install process for your app (after the Runtime). 

by Zac Woodall
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# kjm87 said on August 23, 2007 8:04 PM:

I'm still getting errors trying to do the Output to PDF. Is the install order important?

I noted the errors here:

http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/uaremgo.php?Cat=&F_Board=85&Thread=1487522&Main=1464030

# Zac Woodall said on August 23, 2007 11:43 PM:

I'm checking on this...

# Alan Cossey said on August 24, 2007 4:15 AM:

If there is no actual change to the add-in, then I will still have the same problem (A while ago I downloaded the add-in to my Vista laptop which has Office 2007 Enterprise and then copied it to another machine with Windows XP and just the Access 2007 runtime). I too got the 2501 error message.

Will you be changing the add-in to get it to show underlining properly in Access, please? Having to change all my underlined labels to textboxes and set their text format to Rich Text is a bit of a chore.

Ta.

Alan

# Bart Wessels' Blog said on August 24, 2007 10:31 AM:

Goed nieuws op de Access Teamblog: Great news, you can now redistribute and use the PDF and XPS addin...

# Alan Cossey said on August 25, 2007 4:05 AM:

Zac,

The web page for the Access runtime that you quote has been modified to say that the PDF add-in can be distributed with the runtime, but as of 25/8/2007 the PDF add-in page which it links to still says you need the full version of Office, validation and stuff. That page needs changing too.

Alan

# Zen said on August 25, 2007 5:18 AM:

The new "Active" features of Reports (filters on preview, etc) work with Runtime Edition?

Bye

# clintc said on August 25, 2007 10:42 AM:

Yes--report browse and filtering is available in the runtime.

# Zac Woodall said on August 25, 2007 8:14 PM:

Thanks Alan, yeah we know about this.  The text on the PDF site and EULA should not be a problem.  What we've got on the Access runtime site is sufficient to grant you the rights you need to redistribute.

# M. David Matney said on August 26, 2007 7:20 PM:

I tested the PDF/XPS by installing it on a Windows Vista Enterprise edition.  XPS document writer installed, however PDF document writer did not install.  

# Zac Woodall said on August 27, 2007 1:09 PM:

David, do you mean it installed but doesn't work right, or it didn't install?  Did you know there are three different install packages?

- PDF only

- XPS only

- PDF and XPS

# Rex Withers said on August 28, 2007 12:33 AM:

I can't get Export to PDF to work under the runtime (works fine under full access) or the new "Active" features of Reports (filters on preview, etc)

Can you suggest where I can get help with this.

I have posted a few questions around the web re the PDF export and the consensus was that that the feature didn’t work in the runtime. Looks like this is not the case which is great but we need more detail.

(http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS_Access/Q_22669866.html)

# M. David Matney said on August 28, 2007 9:47 AM:

I downloaded the file named SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe located at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en (note that page only has one download which based upon its filename I asume its for pdf and xps) and it only installed the XPS driver.  Meaning, if you go and look at the printer list, the PDF printer did not get installed

# M. David Matney said on August 28, 2007 12:19 PM:

The link you have at the top of this page links to the PDF and XPS.  thats what I downloaded.  It only installed the XPS printer driver.

Now my question is.  Do we have to Save AS PDF?  vs. in the full access 2007 product there is a PDF Printer driver that gets installed

# Zac Woodall said on August 29, 2007 12:37 PM:

Hmmm... do you mean print driver or export button?  Is there a new printer now installed on your computer that all apps can use?

# Zac Woodall said on August 29, 2007 12:41 PM:

Rex: see my previous comment in this post.  We're aware of the PDF issue.  It looks like there is a bug that our testing failed to catch and we're actively investigating it.  Sorry for ths inconvenience this is causing!

On Reports in the runtime, you should be able to get to the filtering functionality on the right click menu.  By default, runtime mode does not show the filtering buttons at the top of Access.  You can add your own button to open the filter dropdown, or you can customize the ribbon to add the filtering buttons back using custom ribbonX.  

HTH!

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About Zac Woodall

Zac is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the team designing Access’s next generation platform infrastructure. He advocates easy to use designs, organizes community efforts, and is the author of The Rational Guide to Microsoft® Office Access 2007 Templates. Zac has been working at Microsoft Corporation since 1999. Before that time, he attended the University of Idaho, from which he holds a B.S. in Computer Science.
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