Printing PDF files (win32)

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Aug 16 15:46:44 EDT 2000


In article <399AE84E.63AE1144 at mail.com>, Jan Dries <jdries at mail.com>
writes
>
>
>Robin Becker wrote:
>> 
>> >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. 
>
>The ActiveX Acrobat control has a very simple interface:
>
>1 property
>       LPCTSTR GetSrc()
>       SetSrc(LPCTSTR)
>3 operations
>       void Print();
>       BOOL LoadFile(LPCTSTR fileName);
>       void AboutBox();
>
>Loading the file with LoadFile() and subsequently printing it with
>Print() works for me (in a C++ project). But the control is supposed to
>be a visual control. I can't tell if it can work as a background
>non-visual control. 
>
>Regards,
>Jan Dries
>
yes that was exactly my problem; how to get the document processing
without a window.
-- 
Robin Becker



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