I've tinkered around a while try to make Adobe PDF Reader work with Access. I added the reference from the following path:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\Active
Doing this allows me to drop an adobe control on the user form. However, no method or properties are visible. Does anyone know if it is possible to embed the adobe reader into access?
The end result that I am really after is printing a series of PDF documents at once from stored file paths in the access database. I would prefer to pre-choose the default-printer and automatically print all individual documents with minimal user interaction. A working embedded acrobat reader should be able to provide this kind of functionality. I've seen examples of calling adobe from a shell, but this would require considerable user interaction to individually print and close each PDF document.
TIA.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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Your solution works perfectly.
I had a little trouble with it on my home computer at first. When I loaded the form with the adobe control, the form would freeze. However, since I had adobe version 7 installed at home I thought I should give version 8 to see it the older version was causing the problem..
Once I upgraded to version 8 everything worked well.
Thanks for the help.
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by: LSMConsultingPosted on 2007-08-11 at 04:53:20ID: 19675620
ActiveX controls in Access can be difficult to manage at times. In order to get the Intellisense dropdowns, you need to do this:
Dim pdf As AcroPDF
Set pdf = Me.AcroPDF0.Object
With pdf
.LoadFile "G:\Documents and Settings\SomeName\My Documents\SomeArticle.pdf"
.printWithDialog
End With
note the call to .LoadFile ... this will load a PDF, then the call to PrintWithDialog will actually do the heavy work.