Revisiting PDF Forms

Discussion in 'Feature: Requests and Planning' started by Graham, Sep 15, 2012.

  1. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    It looks for the eps in the directory you specify in Settings/User/PDF forms.

    You need to repair your installation .. use the repair button
  2. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    I had it set correctly.
    I'm trying a different directory.
  3. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    I've tried both 32bit and 64 bit gsview and I still have the same problems:

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  4. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    Is there a standard .pdf format ?

    I have issues like some pdf forms will work with 32 bit gswin and others that work with 64 bit.

    I think it is safest to one use the gswin that you are using in synapse, 32 or 64 bit.
  5. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

  6. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    The PDF file format has evolved considerably since introduction of version 1 in 1984 to version 2.0 in 2017. I've used versions 1.4 to 1.7 a whole lot. If you click on file properties, it will list the version of PDF the file uses and which software created it (usually). There are also subtypes of PDF files, e.g., PDF/A which is for archiving documents and PDF-MRC (mixed raster compression) which is a superior way to compress PDF files and make them searchable (Paperport Pro 14.5 has a PDF-MRC file converter).

    The wikipedia article on PDF's has a pretty good summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

    I have sometimes had issues converting PDF's of one version or another to other PDF formats using various graphic and image conversion programs but I haven't tried it with ghostscript much. Here's an old post from the ghostscript forum about just such a bug.
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689813
  7. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Yep, and Rebol uses a co-ordinate system that uses top left as 0x0 so I have to flip them in the postscript dialect I use.
  8. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    I use

    C:\Users\anon_\OneDrive\Synapse\pdfs\

    as the location for my PDF/PNG/EPS files. I didn't mention that the directory has to be below the directory in which the synapse.exe binary has been installed.
    It doesn't have permissions to look outside its own root directory I think.
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  9. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    upload_2021-6-30_13-42-58.png

    Is using the 0,841 pt within GSview the way to go for Co-ordinates ?
  10. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    upload_2021-6-30_13-45-41.png

    I cant get rid of this when clicking
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  11. Jason

    Jason Developer / Handyman Staff Member

    What is upload_2021-6-30_13-47-57.png ?
  12. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    I think gsview is offering to core dump the data for debugging. Here's an example post from the ghostscript forums of somebody using core dump to debug what went wrong with a pdf that was producing a segmentation fault/memory corruption issue.
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698615
  13. Jerry

    Jerry Administrator Staff Member

    Apparently Rebol was released as open source in 2012. So, do you need a license to use something Rebol related still? The free download page is http://www.rebol.com/downloads.html.
  14. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Rebol3 was released as open source. The only existing fork of that is ren-c which I use for my day to day scripts.
    But Synapse EHR is based on Rebol2 and that won't be released as open source due to the wishes of the investors I believe.
  15. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    Dump just displays the current boxes that you've placed on your form.
  16. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member



    A video tutorial of the process.
  17. Graham

    Graham Developer Staff Member

    So any progress on your own forms?

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