Include pdf-files as part of access report output

[mogens]

I'm producing packing lists per order for my supplier, and would like to
integrate the invoices as part of the report output. Invoices are saved
as pdf-documents (done outside MS-Access) and named as
C:invoices\order_id.pdf, for instance C:\invoices\6478.pdf. So to make
it easy for the packing staff I hoped to find a way to include the
pdf-file in the report output after the packing list. So packlist order
1, invoice order 1, packlist order 2, invoice order 2, etc.

Can this be done in Access?

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Right now, you'll have to install a PDF printer driver on the PC, and then
you can use that driver to print the report in PDF format.

In the next version of ACCESS (Office 12), PDF will be one of the standard,
built-in options for publishing a report:
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/10/office-12-will-support-pdf.html

 

[mogens]

Right now, you'll have to install a PDF printer driver on the PC, and then
you can use that driver to print the report in PDF format.

In the next version of ACCESS (Office 12), PDF will be one of the standard,
built-in options for publishing a report:
http://alexdyb.blogspot.com/2005/10/office-12-will-support-pdf.html

Ken, I already have a pdf printer driver installed. This is how I
generate the invoices. What I'm after, is to include these already
existing pdf's in the report - something like an image included in the
report output.

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Sorry, I misread your post.

I haven't worked with what you want to do, but you might be able to use an
OLE image control in the report (and bind it to an OLE field in the report's
recordsource query), and have it display the PDF file's image in it?

If not, I'll hope that someone with more experience in this area will be
able to suggest alternative ways of doing what you seek to do.