Problems with merging Mail-Fields

ptassek

Hello,

I develop a dynamic pdf-document generator/server and I need a Delphi-/ActiveX Component, which helps me to load my fomated rtf-docs, fill the defined mail-merge-fields and convert it to pdf. Therefore I downloaded the PDFControl-Demo-Dll, but I have problems to set/replace defined mail-fields with my values. My sourcecode:

Code

//Settings
PDFControl.PDF_MailMergeStart := '@@';


//Main-Process
....
if PDFControl.StartEngine('wPDFControlDemo.dll', '', '', 0) then begin
   PDFControl.BeginDoc('output.pdf', 0);
   PDFControl.ExecIntCommand(WPCOM_RTFINIT, 0);
   PDFControl.ExecStrCommand(WPCOM_RTFLOAD, 'rtffile.rtf');
   PDFControl.ExecIntCommand(WPCOM_RTFPRINT, 0);
   PDFControl.EndDoc;
   PDFControl.StopEngine;
end;
......


procedure TfrmMain.PDFControlGetText(ASender: TObject; Number: Integer;
  const Text: WideString);
var txt : String;
begin
    txt := 'Tempstring';
    PDFControl.SetResult(txt);
end;

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I would be happy if anyone could help me to fix my problem.

Thanks U very much at all,

Andreas Ptassek

support

The MailMerge the "MailMergeStart" applies to is not used by the RTF Engine. It is a mailmerge possibility which is available for any metafiles to replace text which was created using TextOut("@@name").

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The mailmerge for RTF files is more powerful since the inserted text can be multi line.

To use it you need to have fields which look like

<NAME>

Using the command WPCOM_RTFMAKEFIELDS you can convert this fields into the mailmerge fields which are used natively by the RTFEngine (WPTools mailmerge fields. See http://www.wpcubed.com/ftp/wpdemo.zip for a demo application)

The you can use the mailmerge event.

...But... for a Delphi application I recomend to buy WPTools and wPDF individual. You can build your RTF mailmerge application without the need for an activeX.

Julian Ziersch