I recently made a change to the way I do checkboxes in my WPRichText. Previously it was simply a wingding character that I looked for when the user clicks on the WPRichText. When this was the case, the PDF Export took no more than one or two seconds to export a long WPRichText to a PDF document.
The only thing I can think of is that I've changed these checkboxes to be hyperlinks, so I can trigger on hyperlink event to toggle the checkbox char instead. Now when I do a PDF export, it takes about 15 seconds to export the WPRichText to PDF.
A print preview of the doc before the export is fine and very quick of course... but then taking that same doc and exporting it is now very slow.
Is hyperlink conversion to PDF a rather intensive operation? I have something on the order of 160 hyperlinked checkboxes on a basic document... a lot more if users add additional ones.
If this is the case, I guess I'll take the time to strip out the hyperlink text objects that are checkboxes prior to PDF export since obviously they don't really need to be hyperlinks once exported to PDF.
If exporting hyperlinks is not the problem, then I have more detective work to do.
Please advise...
WPTools 5.18.5, wPDf 2.5.1, Delphi 7, WinXP Pro SP2
P.S. Oh... there was one other change... I upgraded from WPTools 5.17.4 to 5.18.5. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or not.
Eric