Saving a datawindow as PDF in PB 10.5

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I have a grid datawindow with a picture in it's background (with dimensions of an A4 page) and I would like to export both data and the picture as a (single page) PDF file. I used several combinations of the following commands but at most I got a 0-sized pdf.

//dw_1.Modify("Datawindow.Export.PDF.Method = Distill! ")
//dw_1.Modify("DataWindow.Export.PDF.Method = XSLFOP! ")

dw_1.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.Method = Distill!
//dw_1.Object.DataWindow.Printer = "\\prntsrvr\pr-6"
dw_1.Object.DataWindow.Export.PDF.Distill.CustomPostScript="No"
dw_1.SaveAs("c:\dw_one.pdf", PDF!, false)

User’s guide (on page 533) says:

… the data is printed to a PostScript file and automatically distilled to PDF using GNU Ghostscript…

Installing Ghostscript

For licensing reasons, Ghostscript is not installed with PowerBuilder. You (and your users) must download and install it before you can use this technique…

Does anyone have any idea what is the procedure?

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