I  have an existing table in version 3.0 format that contains a blob field which contains a compressed pdf file. How do I extract that pdf from the blob field into a readable pdf file?

Thanks

John


Something like

TMemoField(FilAttMgr.FieldByName('_Item')).SaveToFile(PutTo);

will save it to disk and

ShellExecute(Application.Handle, nil, Pchar(#34 + PutTo + #34), nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

will display it.

Roy Lambert

blob := yourDataset.CreateBlobStream(yourDataset.FieldByName('YOUR_BLOB'),
bmRead);
try
 blob.Seek(0, soFromBeginning);

 with TFileStream.Create('c:\your_name.pdf', fmCreate) do
   try
     CopyFrom(blob, blob.Size)
   finally
     Free
   end;
finally
 blob.Free
end;

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With best regards, Mike Shkolnik
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"John" <tswitz00@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I  have an existing table in version 3.0 format that contains a blob field
which contains a compressed pdf file. How do I extract that pdf from the
blob field into a readable pdf file?
>
> Thanks
>

Thanks for the reply, I think that will do it.