JADE Environment Development Ideas

This has been discussed at the latest JEDI Review meeting and it was decided not to proceed with this feature. The comments suggest that there isn't a common view of what the feature would look like.

Also we use a few features the vanilla Windows PDF driver doesn't provide, like the pdf driver applying a background image, encryption and security settings to name a few.

I would like it if generated print pages when SVG could be converted to PDF. That way anything you could print could be turned into a PDF.

In general when Jade do something they do it properly which sadly can’t be said for the rest of the punters out there. Issues like being thread safe and ensuring you get back the PDF you are expecting (when running multiple systems on a server) is obviously imperative. Using a printer driver controlled and managed by windows does not inspire me with confidence.

Can you please explain why using the Windows PDF driver does not meet your requirements?

We use PDF-Xchange as we require "Secure" pdf with background images and Signatures but if this could be built into Jade it qould be great!

We are using EO PDF https://www.essentialobjects.com/doc/pdf/overview.aspx - when changing windows server versions we had to rewrite our .dll and was a lot of mucking around to get it working. There needs to be an easier way! :)

Absolutely. We would love this feature built into Jade. We use Win2PDF which we have found to have the best quality to size ratio. However the question is almost always raised as to why our software requires a PDF printer driver to workWe rely on PDF generation when emailing reports.

I would also like to be able to nominate PDF output and a filename in the Printer class