Printing with python

[Florian Schulze]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:09:43 +0200 Grzegorz Makarewicz <mak at trisoft.com.pl> wrote:

> 
> I have tested this small script with AR 4 (perhaps) and it has worked, 
> now 5.05 simply wont start :(
> 
> Sorry, cant help
> mak
> 
> 

I have written a small code snippet which starts up Acrobat Reader and
makes a connection (attached).

Could someone give me more help on dde with python. For example: Do I need
to explicitely close the connection or is that done automatically when the
variable gets destroyed? To repeat that, I don't need general dde help, but
help on the python implementation of it.

Regards,
Florian

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import os
import _winreg
import win32process
import win32con
import dde
import time

def pdftest():
    key = _winreg.OpenKeyEx(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\AcroRd32.exe')
    acrord = _winreg.QueryValue(key, "")
    sui=win32process.STARTUPINFO()
    sui.wShowWindow = win32con.SW_HIDE
    sui.dwFlags = win32con.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW
    p = win32process.CreateProcess(acrord, "", None, None, 0, win32process.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, None, None, sui)

    server = dde.CreateServer()
    server.Create("PyAcroview")

    conversation = dde.CreateConversation(server)

    timeout = 20
    while timeout > 0 and conversation.Connected() == 0:
        try:
            conversation.ConnectTo("Acroview", "Control")
        except:
            time.sleep(1)
            --timeout

    conversation.Exec('[FileOpen("%s")]' % 'C:/home/Dev/python/test/wegberg Kopie.pdf')