Printing PDF files (win32)

[Alex Martelli]

"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9B3X3jAk+um5EwKT at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk...
    [snip]
> >> >Does anyone know how to automate the printing of PDF files through
> >> >Acrobat Reader?
> >> >
> >> under unix it's fairly easy. I looked into doing this at one point, but
> >> I couldn't figure out the com interface. There is an ActiveX Acrobat
> >> Control, but I think that would be tough to use.
    [snip]
> yes that was exactly my problem; how to get the document processing
> without a window.

Try Navigate to the .PDF file from an instance of
InternetExplorer.Application
with the Visible property set to 0; that should work.  Then, when the
ReadyState property of the IE instance gets to 4, you print with ExecWB
as per recent thread on the subject.


Alex