6254

Creating a new PDF document failed.

One potential cause for this error is if you're running under Client Server and you try to create a PDF file on the server.

Another cause is that the PDF file is locked by a different program.

Under Client Server, PDF files must be created on the client side, and then copied up to the server. To do that, you put an "@:" on the front of the file name and specify a valid local directory for the creation. Then you follow up with an "execute copy" command to copy the file from the client to the server.

 Example:
 open #255: "name=PDF:, PrintFile=@:TempConvert\TimelogReport.pdf, replace, recl=500",display,output
 ! Print the report here
 !
 
 ! 
 Close #255:
 
 execute "copy @:TempConvert\TimelogReport.pdf Reports\TimeLogReport.pdf"

In the above example, the "@:" causes the PDF file to be created on the client, in the clients Current Directory in a subdirectory called "TempConvert". In the copy command, the "@:" at the beginning tells BR to get the file from the Client computer, and the fact that there is no "@:" on the second parameter of the copy command tells BR that you're copying the file up to the server.