VI Front Panel to PDF

Hi all,
Need some help to store VI front Panel to PDF. Im using 'Dopdf' application to convert the front panel to pdf.
My requirement is i need to save the PDF file name programatically instead of popping out a window to browse pdf file path and file name.can any one please suggest any API or dll??
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Jayavanth.G

An easy way is to use the ITextSharp toolkit, you can download it from the following link: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10952.
Here is an application example an the resulting pdf.
Ben64
Attachments:
FrontPanel.pdf ‏14 KB

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Print Front Panel to PDf file error

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While this may not answer your question, check Jack Hamilton web site at:
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i have a real strange problem and don't know even where to start.
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Oh, I thought the printing was desired. Go to File->VI Properties for the VI you posted. Change the category to Print Options. In the section Print with Execution, you have the automatically print front panel every time VI completes execution checked. Uncheck it. Check to see if you have it checked for any of your subVIs, too.
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RE: Print a front panel in a file

Use a pdf printer driver and use this along with the print on completion
setting for the VI that you want to print to file.
This is great for reports.
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> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Print a front panel in a file
>
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> I would like to know if there is any function or other way to print a
> front panel in a file (a picture file or a print file) in execution
> mode.
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> thanks
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I'm not aware of a single vi that can do this. The way I've done this is to use combination of vi's described under Help in "report generation vis and function" located under "vi and function reference."

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