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A '''PDF''' or '''Portable Document Format''' document ([[wikipedia:Portable Document Format]]) can be created with Business Rules! [[4.2]] and higher.

This is not the same facility as [[NWP]]. However it supports all of the NWP syntax with the following exceptions:

*Tiling and cross hatching are not supported. (colors and shading do work)
*[[NORESIZE]] is ignored.
*We are restricted to true type fonts only.

A couple of the more exciting characteristics of this new printing facility are the relatively compact output file sizes and the ability to overprint PDF forms.

This feature requires the [[PDFLIB.DLL]] to be present in the BR directory.

To create a PDF file specify in the print file [[OPEN]] statement:
Name= PDF:/ [,PrintFile= ...]
If printfile is not specified, BR creates a PDF file in the [[spool directory]].

To create a PDF file and send it to the user’s Windows program associated with PDF files (such as Adobe Acrobat):
Name= PDF:/READER [,PrintFile= ...]
This is the same as creating a PDF file and then double clicking it.

To create a PDF file and send it to a specified program or batch file:
Name= PDF:/program-name [,PrintFile= ...]

A background PDF file may be specified in the printed output as
\Epdf='page_number,pdf-filename'.
As with similar NWP [[escape sequences]], \Epdf= is case sensitive, but the pdf-filename is not.

A [[CONFIG]] [[statement]] may override the default Windows PDF reader (typically Adobe Acrobat):
PDF_READER adobe-reader-alternate
This CONFIG statement causes BR to translate “Name= PDF:/READER” to
“Name=PDF:/adobe-reader-alternate”.

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[[Category:Printing]]
[[Category:Terminology]]
</noinclude>

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