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Mike McCracken

Set file name for Adobe Printer

I am modifying a VB6 application. I need to export a Crystal report to PDF format. The application uses CR7 which doesn't have an export to PDF option. The user is currently using the PDF printer from Adobe Professional.

I would like to automate the printing to the Adobe printer so the user doesn't have to do anything other than request the print of the report. The filename needs to be set based on information in the report like client name and test date.

Currently they select each client and "print" the reports one at a time. Some days there are up to 100 client report to print.

Is it possible to set the output file name and destination directory?

If it isn't possible with the Adobe printer is there another PDF printer that does allow you to set the destination and printfile name?

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Mike McCracken

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They are using Adobe Professional 6.0

Is the PDF printer for that version available as a dowmload?

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Eric - Netminder🇺🇸

They shouldn't need it; I'm using a very old version of Acrobat (I think it's v3), and the "printer" -- the Acrobat system that creates the file -- is the same as any other printer would be (confirmation button and all).

So you should be able to write a script that just confirms the file name of the report as the name of the PDF file...

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aikimark🇺🇸

I started using BullZip instead of Adobe for this reason. I couldn't bypass the file/path prompt coming out of an Office application. :-(

For one client, I created a SendKeys application that wakes up, looks for the Adobe file/path prompt, activates the dialog if found, and sends a key character sequence to continue with the PDF creation.

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For BullZip, there is a printer object I can set properties for programmatically.

Also with BullZip, I can create an .INI file that the printer object will use for its settings.

Mike McCracken

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The sendkeys sounds interesting.

How did you do that.

I have a VB6 application that will print upto 100 reports in sequence through the PDF printer.

I'll also look at BullZip.

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To make it easier for the user to find and launch, I changed the program icon.

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Eric - Netminder🇺🇸

There's also Ghostscript: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

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I use Ghost to view postscript files.

Mike McCracken

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aikimark
Thanks. I almost have it working. Been busy with other priorities so haven't quite got it done.

I would use the export to PDF except the version of Crystal we are using doesn't have that ability.

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Remember that this might not work under Vista (and later). However, there is a work-around for this new runtime limitation.

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Still running XP.

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