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Question Suzy Green · Feb 11, 2025

Intersystems Reports (Logi Reports) - Does it merge multiple PDFs?

#InterSystems IRIS for Health #Health Connect #InterSystems Reports (Logi)

We currently use a combination of Ghostscript and ImageMagick to accomplish our PDF requirements. These products are ceating memory/cpu issues when merging large PDFS. I am trying to find out if Intersystems Reports can handle our requirements (see below).

		Magick 7.0.10 - Ghostscript 9.53.2 Magick 7.0.10 - Ghostscript 10.04 Does Not Work
Function	Image manipulation	Required Software
Create/print Requisition	PDFToPCL	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
Create/print Requisition	PDFToPCL	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
ConvertImgToPDF		Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
ConvertPDFToPNG		Ghostscript
ConvertPDFToText		Ghostscript
MergePDFS		Ghostscript
PDFToPCL		Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
PrintABN	s cmd="i:\pdfPrintX\PDFtoPrinter	PDFtoPrinter software locally installed
PrintPDFToDevice	PDFToPCL	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
CreatePDF		%Zen.Report
GetAllEncompassingPDF	CreatePDF + MergePDFS if they exist	Ghostscript during the merge
ABNPRINTNEW	PrintPDFToDevice (PCL)	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
PrintABNToScreen	ConvertPDFToText	Ghostscript
PRINTPDF	PDFToPCL	create txt file and then pdf to get embedded barcode
PDFTOPCL	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
	PrintPDFToDevice	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command
	ConvertPDFToText if wanting to print to screen	GhostScript
PRINTPDFS	PDFToPCL	Ghostscript + ImageMagick using convert command

Does anyone have experience with Intersystems Reports and if so, can you give me some insights as to the functionality as a replacement for Ghostscript and ImageMagick for above functionality?

Thank you in advance for any help on this.

Product version: IRIS 2023.1

$ZV: IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2023.1.5 (Build 697U) Thu Oct 3 2024 13:47:51 EDT [Health:5.1.0-4.m2023.1.5]

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Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Feb 14, 2025

Have you tried to merge the pdf using Embedded Python? In IRIS 2023 is already available, you only require to install the pypdf library in your instance to use it.

You can find an example of pdf merge using python here.

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Suzy Green Feb 20, 2025 to Luis Angel Pérez Ramos

Thanks Luis. I have not tried Python, but will give it a try.

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