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November 8, 2021
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Issue with Exporting RPRO Reports to PDF

  • November 8, 2021
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Hello, I'm an IT with a retail company, we have almost a 100 stores across multiple states and this issue is happening with all our stores. We use Retail Pro for our POS and we have something called Retail Pro 9 Reports in our back offices at the stores where managers can run Sales and Dicount reports and then either print or export those files. The one that doesn't work in this case is exporting these reports to PDF. When we hit export, nothig happens mostly, the files don't get export to the Reader. We have the stores doing a workaround for now which is to hit print option at the top in the Reports, at the drop-down arrow, there's a "Microsoft Print to PDF" option and save it that way. The exporting strangely enough works sometimes when you back out of the reports and running it again one or two times but obviously that's not ideal.

 

I have attached an picture example of what the Retail Pro Reports looks like as I understand it's not widely used or known. This started happening on the 29th of Sept. and has been ongoing ever since. Not sure if there was a windows update, I looked at all the latest windows updates and I don't see anything out of the ordinary that would break Adobe exporting to PDF or a bug in Adobe that needs to be looked at, but it's a little frustrating. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated? Thanks! 

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Participant
November 11, 2021

Hi,

I am a retail pro certified technision and a developer with 15+ years of experiance in Retail Pro Version 8, Retail Pro Version 9 and Retail Pro Prism.

 

You can email me on s.chandrakumar@gmail.com if this issue is still open.

 

Thanks,

Chandrakumar Subramani

Mobile: +91 7373092020

Skype: s.chandrakumar  

try67
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Community Expert
November 9, 2021

You need to contact the developers of this software you're using. Reader is not involved at all in the process of creating the file. It can only be used to display PDF files, and will do so if used correctly.

Fey101Author
Participant
November 9, 2021

Thanks for the reply, is exporting a file from this software to Adobe Acrobar Reader considered "creating" one? Isn't this method same as simply displaying a PDF file? I also see why this is considered creating a file at the same. we'll try to contact their dev team and see if they can help. 

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 9, 2021

You can't export to Reader. What you're doing is creating a PDF file, and then opening it in Reader, but Reader is not involved at all in the first part of the process.