Set PDF metadata using iLogic

[magjal]

Hi,

I´ve found some iLogic code to print a drawing to a PDF document. After some minor modifications it works just fine, but I would like to add some code which allows med to set PDF properties (such as "title", "author", etc.) with values from iProperties. How can I do that? Is it possible? (I'm new to iLogic).

//Magnus

[magjal]

Hi,

I´ve found some iLogic code to print a drawing to a PDF document. After some minor modifications it works just fine, but I would like to add some code which allows med to set PDF properties (such as "title", "author", etc.) with values from iProperties. How can I do that? Is it possible? (I'm new to iLogic).

//Magnus

[kmiller]

Have you ever found anyone to reply to this or a way to do it?

[kmiller]

Have you ever found anyone to reply to this or a way to do it?

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi kmiller,

I think will involve a bit of work from the Windows file side of things:

https://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=196e23fbed2912c1&q=vb.net+write+file+properties

I would search and/or ask this question on the Inventor Customization forum:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi kmiller,

I think will involve a bit of work from the Windows file side of things:

https://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=196e23fbed2912c1&q=vb.net+write+file+properties

I would search and/or ask this question on the Inventor Customization forum:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[kmiller]

Thanks - I was just going a google search and ran accross this forum first.  Guess i didn't go any further than that. 

[kmiller]

Thanks - I was just going a google search and ran accross this forum first.  Guess i didn't go any further than that. 

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi kmiller,

Ooops, I ddin't mean to suggest you hadn't worked hard enough searching (but I can see where my post does come off that way), 

I just meant that I think the solution will come from working with the Windows file hooks API , rather than the Inventor API. In either case the Customization Forum will be the place to find out.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi kmiller,

Ooops, I ddin't mean to suggest you hadn't worked hard enough searching (but I can see where my post does come off that way), 

I just meant that I think the solution will come from working with the Windows file hooks API , rather than the Inventor API. In either case the Customization Forum will be the place to find out.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[kmiller]

Sounds good.  I didn't search enough so it would have been a valid assumption.   I am writng my code in vb.net so I think I can possibly come up with something.  We are just brainstorming some stuff here in regards of the best way to push file data from inventor into another system. 

I do appreciate the quick response and will check it out. 

Thanks.

[kmiller]

Sounds good.  I didn't search enough so it would have been a valid assumption.   I am writng my code in vb.net so I think I can possibly come up with something.  We are just brainstorming some stuff here in regards of the best way to push file data from inventor into another system. 

I do appreciate the quick response and will check it out. 

Thanks.

[magjal]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply! I will check out your suggestions.

I did search the solution to my problem in both discussion groups and google before I posted this question, but without any luck. Guess I didn't really knew how to phrase my search...

[magjal]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply! I will check out your suggestions.

I did search the solution to my problem in both discussion groups and google before I posted this question, but without any luck. Guess I didn't really knew how to phrase my search...

[bruce.blundell]

Hi All,

Has there been any further findings on this ?

I am looking to embed various iproperties into PDF's so that these can

be extracted into an excel document register.

I'll keep looking too and feedback to here if I find anything

Regards

Bruce

[bruce.blundell]

Hi All,

Has there been any further findings on this ?

I am looking to embed various iproperties into PDF's so that these can

be extracted into an excel document register.

I'll keep looking too and feedback to here if I find anything

Regards

Bruce

[MjDeck · Accepted solution]

@bruce.blundell , you can do it with the attached rule. I tested it on a drawing in Inventor 2019. It should work in 2018 as well. It requires the PdfSharp library, which you can download from https://www.nuget.org/packages/PdfSharp/1.50.5147

The download is a .nupkg file. 7-Zip will unzip it.

Find the file PdfSharp.dll (in the lib\net20 folder) and copy it to the folder:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\Bin\iLogicAdd

(or similar for 2018).

[MjDeck · Accepted solution]

@bruce.blundell , you can do it with the attached rule. I tested it on a drawing in Inventor 2019. It should work in 2018 as well. It requires the PdfSharp library, which you can download from https://www.nuget.org/packages/PdfSharp/1.50.5147

The download is a .nupkg file. 7-Zip will unzip it.

Find the file PdfSharp.dll (in the lib\net20 folder) and copy it to the folder:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\Bin\iLogicAdd

(or similar for 2018).

[bruce.blundell]

Cheers Mike

I'll give that a crack and see how I go

Bruce

[bruce.blundell]

Cheers Mike

I'll give that a crack and see how I go

Bruce

[bruce.blundell]

That Works perfectly Mike, Many thanks for your help!

Now for my next trick I need to be able to then extract those custom properties into an excel spreadsheet

I am going to have a look around and see if there is any VBA that can extract that

Regards

Bruce

[bruce.blundell]

That Works perfectly Mike, Many thanks for your help!

Now for my next trick I need to be able to then extract those custom properties into an excel spreadsheet

I am going to have a look around and see if there is any VBA that can extract that

Regards

Bruce