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Browse All Topicspardon the caps but every time i post all i get are answers regarding printing through the acrobat shell. I know how to do that!. These pdf's are opened automatically each morning via a macro that runs when an autoprogram opens excel. They are currently saved and I have to print them manually when I get in in the morning. I want them to print automatically. I want to be able to send IE a command to print the document AND which printer to use. I DO NOT want to use the sendkeys method. Any help would be most apprecaited
Tom
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by: alainbrydenPosted on 2009-09-01 at 11:37:30ID: 25234568
The only way to do this would be to first open your own internet explorer instance with automation: en-us/libr ary/ aa7520 84%28VS.85 %29.aspx
en-us/libr ary/ aa7520 87%28VS.85 %29.aspx
en-us/libr ary/ aa7520 87%28VS.85 %29.aspx (OLECMDID_PRINT = 6)
en-us/libr ary/ms9761 05.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
Then you use the same routine you have now to open PDFs in internet explorer. You can then use automation to tell internet explorer to print the open files using the ExecWB command: http://msdn.microsoft.com/
You need to pass ExecWB the OLECMDID Enumeration code for printing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/
The following page goes into some detail on using this command and others to customize how IE prints the document: http://msdn.microsoft.com/
This is all the help I can give, I hope it's enough.
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Alain