Hi,

I'm trying to create a document that adds external PDFs into it, I have it doing this via the showPDF in the document design.
I have created the document design and if I run it via the PlantPress Image within my watch process it generates fine. But when I run it through the Printer Queue Output get the following error "PTK0098: resource is not a PDF "W-BEN_FAQ_3.0.pdf" in showPDF with line showPDF(&gspdfname, & gnpdfpage, 0, 0)
Any ideas as to why I'm getting this error?
Thanks,
Dee.

I've resolved this issue. I was initalising my variable for file path in the incorrect place in the document design.

I know this post is old, but what exactly did you do to resolve this issue?

Hi Dee,

One way to add your external images on your document is that on the PressTalk After window add below code.

you can reference the number of pages you want to print. For example if you have 7 pages this code will print from page 1 to page 3 or you can say 1,7 to print all the pages.

@IncludePDF('image name here', true, 1, 3, false)


Option number two:
you could dynamically add your images by below code, this works for me:

Create on page and add below press talk on your page


define(&i,integer,0)
define(&j,integer,0)
for(&i,1,1,1)


&imagename:= trim(@(1,1,15))
&sPDFInvoiceName:='\\C:\\Test\\'+ &imagename + '.pdf'

if(ResourceType(&sPDFInvoiceName)>0)
for(&iPDFPageNo,1,1,pdfpagecount(&sPDFInvoiceName))
$PDF_Invoice
showpage
endfor
else
% $RouterNotFound
% showpage
endif
endfor

then add second page and add image object then change it to Overlay

open the setting in the image box type: =&sPDFInvoiceName
in the Page box type: =&iPDFPageNo

this will merge your dynamic images

I hope this helps

THANKS

also add below global function

function @IncludePDF(&filename:string, &condition:boolean, &from:integer, &to:integer, &after:boolean)
if(&condition)
if(&to = 0)
&to := pdfpagecount(&filename)
endif()
define(&i,integer,0)
for(&i,&from,1,&to)
if(&after)
showPDF(&filename, &i, 8.5, 11.0)
showpage()
else()
showpage()
showPDF(&filename, &i, 8.5, 11.0)
endif()
endfor()
endif()
endfunction()