Merge reports with external PDF

I would like to know if it's possible to merge only with Reports a generated report with an external PDF. I already know about "File Link" object but it doesn't support PDF format, only images or text. It's even possible to embed an external PDF to somewhere in a RDF file? Or I have to merge it with an external tool? I've found PDFBox from Apache guys but then I'm forced to do some webservice between forms and reports, with all the inconveniences and security issues.
Thanks in advance.
Ricard Flores.

I could provide source sample if anyone ask for it.That would be a good idea if you can post it here. This question has been asked before, so it is good to have a thread with an answer.
I have done something similar before, with a Word document stored in the database and adding this doc as an OLE file format column to the report. I am interested how you solved it with PDF, though.

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import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
// chart and pdf out
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation;
import org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.*;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYBarDataset;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;
import org.jfree.data.statistics.SimpleHistogramDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeries;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeriesCollection;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.DefaultFontMapper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfTemplate;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
public class report_gen extends HttpServlet
   private final String titles[] = {"Top Five popular movies ",
                    "Financial cirumstance of cinemas",
                    "Distribution of time segment",
                    "Distribution of favourite movie type"
   private final String descs[] = {"This report is to show the top five popular movies in cinemix for a period ",
               "This report is to show the financial circumstance of each cinema site ",
               "This report is to analysis the customer when is the most visit time ",
               "This report is to analysis the customer which type of movie do they watch the most"
    private final String bigTitle = "Cinemix";
    private final String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
    private final String url= "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cinemix";
    private final String userID = "abc";
    private final String passwd = "abc";
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     final int height = 200;
/ title font (centre and report title)
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     final Font fTitle1 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 30, Font.BOLD);
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JFreeChart chart;
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   String chartDesc = "description";
   String notes[] = new String[4];
   String chartTitle = "so bad this is title";
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   String chartYTitle = "this is y.";
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   int min=10000;
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e.printStackTrace();
return;
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     footer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
document.setFooter(footer);
               footer.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
               // step 3
               document.open();
               document.add(getHeader(title0, title1, start, end, gender, order, topN, chartDesc));
               document.add(printChart(chart, writer));
               document.add(getFooter(notes));
          catch(DocumentException de)
               de.printStackTrace();
          // step 5
          document.close();
          return;
     }// end doGet()
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      * @param request servlet request
      * @param response servlet response
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          // processRequest(request, response);
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          Font fTitle3 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 12, Font.BOLD);
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          parTopN.add(new Phrase(order, fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase(" ", fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase(new Integer(topN).toString(), fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase("   record(s)", fTitle3));
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          PdfPTable tblMain = new PdfPTable(1);
          tblMain.getDefaultCell().setBorder(0);
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          tblMain.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
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          tblMain.addCell(new Paragraph(title1, fTitle1));
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.addCell("");
          // Print headers data
          //tblMain.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
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          //tblMain.addCell("");
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                         tblFooter.addCell("");
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Greetings!
Can anyone tell me a good way to automate changing a "main" PDF's existing hyperlinks to external PDFs to instead be links to PDF attachments to the main PDF (the attached PDFs to have the same filenames as the external PDFs) ?
Format of current link in main PDF:
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File: C:\\path\filename.pdf
Destination name: P:1
When link is manually changed to link to a PDF that has been attached to the main PDF:
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File: PDF attachment
Page: 1
Zoom level: Fit page
The new PDF link does not list the PDF attachment filename in the link.
The main PDF (the one that has the links that I would like to automatically change) is generated with the hyperlinks to other PDFs from Adobe FrameMaker 11. In FrameMaker11, we added special marker text "openpage filename.pdf:1" that is "automatically" changed to be hyperlinks to external PDFs when the main PDF is created (postscript file is processed) by Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.
My first choice is to be able to change the format of the special marker text in Adobe FrameMaker source file, but I have not found way to specify a link to be to a PDF attachment with a certain filename.
However, I would also really like the option of running a batch file on a main PDF to change the links there.
Has anyone tried using that Adobe ExtendScript ToolKit CS6 to do this? That is, a script that could automatically modify the hyperlinks in a PDF to link to PDF attachments rather than external PDFs, or else modify the unprocessed links while they are still in Postscript file format, or else modify the marker text in FrameMaker to instead of creating a link to a PDF in the same directory as the main PDF being processed, to create a link to a PDF attachment files?
Thank you,
Judith Wallace
[email protected]

FrameMaker's Hypertext feature has no ability to "link" to an attachment on/in a target PDF.
PDFs sourced from FM can have named destinations set in the FM authoring files such that a link from file01.fm to the specified named destination in file01.fm will be functional in the PDFs created from the FM files.
Then, of course, there's the dynamics possible by use o FM Books. But that's the grist for the mills at the FM user-2-user forum.
RE: Scripting - PDF scripting is via Acrobat JavaScript. That something still of and by Adobe although it may migrate to an ISO Standard (or be rolled up in a future ISO 32000).
So, to the point - look to Acrobat JavaScript for scripting.
Be well...

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I am using Crystal Reports XI (release 2). I am trying out a report with Summary and Detail sections.
Requirement:
1.     Report should display both Summary and Detail Sections
2.     Summary section should be displayed first followed by Detail Section
3.     A field in summary section should have a hyperlink to Detail Section
4.     On clicking the hyperlink the user should be navigated to the corresponding detail record
5.     User should be able to download the whole report as a single PDF (i.e., both summary and detail together)
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This feature could be implemented using
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Issue Faced:
I used the on demand sub report option. When i clicked on the sub report (hyperlink), the details get displayed. But the details get displayed in separate viewer and hence when we export to PDF both summary and detail are not getting exported together. User has to select each detail report and export to PDF. Is this a limitation in CR XI? - proprietary Crystal Report features, such as drill-down and on-demand subreports, are supported only in the native Crystal Report format. These special features are ignored when exporting a report to a non-Crystal format like pdf.
Is there any workaround for exporting both the summary and detail (in subreport) as a single PDF file?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Viji.

Hi
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If you want to see the records related to a particular employee id by clicking on emp id, you can try the below:
- Apply a group on employee id on the main report.
- Insert a subreport with the required fields and place it on the Employee id Group header. You can put a name of the subreport as "Check Employee details" or something else as per requirement and make it a on demand subreport.
- Link the subreport on Employee id.
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