PDF And Mail
Class Library for Microsoft Access

ACG Soft's PDF and Mail class library allows Access applications to easily produce Adobe Acrobat® PDF files from Access reports and to create whole reporting packages.  It also extends the functionality and ease of sending e-mail with multiple attachments from within Access using numerous mail systems.  22 December, 2008

The Library supports many different PDF drivers and budgets including:

Adobe Acrobat PDF drivers from Adobe Systems
       Supports Acrobat 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
Win2PDF and Win2PDF Pro and Win2PDF Terminal Server Edition from Dane Prairie Systems
pdfFactory and pdfFactory Pro and pdfFactory Server from Fine Print Software 
PDF995 and 995 Tools from Software995 
PDF4U from PDF Bean, Inc.
Amyuni PDF Creator Amyuni Technologies, Inc.
PDF-XChange drivers Tracker Software Products
(Note: Library for 2000/Xp/Vista only.) version 2 & 3
Scan Soft PDF Create! and PDF Converter Pro drivers Scan Soft/Nuance
(Note: version 3 and above.)
Zeon DocuCom PDF drivers Zeon Corporation
(Note: version 6, 7 and above.)
Nitro PDF Professional from Nitro PDF

Mail systems supported include:

Microsoft Outlook®
Microsoft Exchange Client
Microsoft Outlook Express 
Novell GroupWise
® 
Lotus Notes
®
  
Note: Windows Mail on Windows Vista is not supported

Find out what's new in the latest release and version history.

Note:
as of 30 Nov 2006, ACG is no longer updating the Access 97 versions of the library, the last update to the Access 97 version was 19 Oct 2006.)
 

The library is available in three different editions, the Standard, PDF Pro and PDF Pro PlusDownload and register below

The Standard Edition allows creation of PDF files from Access reports using any of the driver families noted above along with enhanced e-mail capabilities like adding multiple attachments to emails.

The PDF Pro Edition adds:

  1. Support for automation of output via Adobe Acrobat Distiller.
  2. Merge multiple Access reports into one PDF file for printing, mailing or archiving. (Requires full Acrobat 4 or above or PDF995)
  3. Printing single or merged PDF files after creation. (Requires full Acrobat 4 or above)
The PDF Pro Plus Edition adds:
  1. The ability to secure individual PDF files at run time.
  2. The ability to create PDF files from MS Word and Excel documents from within Access to assemble complete reports.
  3. Bookmark creation for merged PDF files.
  4. Multiple, Nested and/or child bookmarks by report section.
  5. Add page numbers to merged PDF documents.
  6. Ability to specify PDF properties for author, subject and title at run time.
  7. Ability to specify display mode for merged and bookmarked files.

The Library is Easy to Use

Acrobat The PDF Class in all three Editions makes creating Acrobat PDF files simple; the class allows:

No user intervention required to specify the output file name or location.
Specify WHERE filters for reports printed to *.pdf files so you can filter reports to create multiple PDF files.
Create editable report documents (Acrobat files are editable in Acrobat Exchange).
Also supports Access snapshot creation.

Code Example:
Dim PDFObj As New PDFClass		

With PDFObj
    .ReportName = "My Report"
    .OutputFile = "c:\copy\test.pdf"
    .PrintImage
End With
			
Set PDFObj = Nothing  

Acrobat With the PDF Pro and PDF Pro Plus Editions, you can merge multiple PDF files into one file.  This class can be used to:

Create one faxable document from multiple Access reports
Combine multiple Access reports of different orientation into one printable document.
Create a single electronic archive of multiple documents
Print PDF documents from within Access

The Mail Class provides enhanced e-mail capabilities for systems using MS Exchange, Outlook, Outlook Express, GroupWise or Lotus Notes as their mail client.  Features include:

Log on to Outlook/Exchange without user intervention (or specify a special mail profile for use).
Add any number of recipients or pop up the address book to allow the user to select the recipients.
Add as many attachments/files to a mail item as desired of any file type.
Send plain text or HTML formatted mail. 
Works with the "Internet Only" or "Corporate or Workgroup" installations of Outlook.

Code example:

Dim objMail As New MailClass
Dim Success as Long
    
With ObjMail
    .RecipientAdd "Susan Sample", "suesamp@samplemail.org", , , False
    .AttachmentAdd "c:\pdfs\JanSales.pdf", "January Monthly Report.pdf"
    .AttachmentAdd "c:\lists\distribution list.txt"
    .MsgSubjectText = "Recent sales results"
    .MsgBodyText = "Here's the report and distribution list you wanted."
    .MsgSaveCopy = True
    .SendMail
    Success= .Result
End With
Set ObjMail = Nothing

Here's what users are saying:

"It works flawlessly - we generate reports in PDF format directly in Access - which are attached to Outlook mail messages and routed to the mail server where they are directed to internal users, external clients using the internet gateway or fax server recipients using a Facsys to Exchange Server, fax gateway."
- H. Arnet, Walnut Creek, CA

"Thanks for making a great product.  One of our products (Access based of course) is a Catalog Generator, and some of our clients build 700 page catalogs.  To get their books to press, they were having to name and print each page, ONE PDF AT A TIME!  Within ten minutes of downloading your demo, I had our software producing all 700 PDF pages in just 25 minutes."
-T. Vickory, Tampa FL

"Great tool...Our customers are now getting PDF e-Bills. It takes just minutes to generate the complete billing cycle with over 50,000 records, 200 files merged into 80 and e-mailed to each customer with personalized letters.  This really was worth the price."
E. Benaim, Miami, FL


PDF and Mail Library Download and Ordering Information
Each edition of the library can be downloaded and evaluated for up to 30 days without registration.

Download a copy of the Standard Edition  of the class library for:
Access 2000, Access 2002 (Xp), Access 2003 or Access 2007

Download a copy of the PDF Pro Edition  of the class library for:
Access 2000, Access 2002 (Xp), Access 2003 or Access 2007

Download a copy of the PDF Pro Plus Edition  of the class library for:
Access 2000, Access 2002 (Xp), Access 2003 or Access 2007


* No Longer Updated after 19 Oct 2006

Single Workstation prices are:
Standard Edition: $55 US
PDF Pro Edition: $75 US
PDF Pro Plus Edition: $99 US

Multi-seat corporate discounted licenses are available.  Pricing for corporate licenses is outlined in the Help File that comes with the Library. Order below.

WHEN ORDERING, BE SURE TO CAREFULLY SELECT THE PROPER VERSION OF THE LIBRARY, SELECTING THE SAME VERSION OF THE LIBRARY AS THE VERSION OF ACCESS YOU ARE USING!

Choose your Access Version and Edition

Access 2000-2003

Access 2007
Only

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