Including PDF in report

AlanC

I have a requirement to have a report that is a combination of data from a data source, along with 1 or 2 PDFs. Different PDFs may be required to be displayed in the report, depending on an input parameter.

I am familiar with how we can include jpg images in a report by placing an image on the report and setting the URI value (e.g. "file:///C:/Images/TestImage.jpg") but if I do a similar process for a PDF, the report just shows the "undisplayable icon" with my "alternative text".

Is it possible to do what I want? If not, can anyone suggest an alternative?

mwilliams

Hi AlanC,

I don't believe BIRT can pull a PDF in automatically like that, like it does an image. You'd either have to create an image out of your PDF and display it how you would normally display an image, screenshot a small portion of the PDF and have a hyperlink off to the full PDF, or possibly there's a way to use a text control to bring the PDF into the report to display it. I have not done this last one, but you can probably find info on the web about embedding PDF into HTML which you could use in this text control.

Hope this helps.