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Topic: Re: Creating a pdf with pdfwriter and word - automation (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 87986
From: LeonardR
Date: 5/20/2003 10:26 PM

At 06:46 PM 5/20/2003 +1000, p-pdf-developer Listmanager wrote:
>I am trying to create a pdf from a word document. Word is automated with
>some external app. The code to make word print to the pdfwriter is
>
>Document.PrintOut (.....)
>with print to file set to true and a filename specified. The PDFWriter is
>set as my default printer.

A couple of things...

1) PDFWriter is going away with Acrobat 6 (and was pretty dead in Acrobat
5). You should therefore consider using a better approach (ie. Distiller).

2) Acrobat can't be used on a server to allow non-licensed users to access
its functionality. So if this was your intent, you'll need to move to a
3rd party PDF generation solution.


>I have read that it would be better to use distiller for graphic rich
>files. How would I do this via automation?


Check out the Acrobat SDK, InterApplication Communication section
for documentation and sample code for automating Distiller...


Leonard


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Leonard Rosenthol
Chief Technical Officer
PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice)