[python-win32] Python Automation Question

[Steven James]

PDFCreator has a COM API...might be able to solve your problem a different
way.

If user-friendliness does not matter, try this knowledge base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156212

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156212>It describes how to change the
default printer (per user) through a registry setting.

SJ

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Roberts, Gregory (Contractor) wrote:
> >
> > The automation runs on a VM and is working smoothly except for with
> > one report.  It requires that the default printer on the VM is set to
> > print to PDF and I am unsure of how to go about this.  I have
> > inherited the code after essentially writing the requirements and am
> > excited to begin coding in Python.  I would prefer not to have to
> > contact the initial developer if at all possible and use this as a
> > learning experience since again, I am maintaining the automation scripts.
>
> Well, at the risk of being flippant, it seems to me that the right thing
> to do is to change the default printer to print to PDF.  By hand.
>
> Assuming you have Acrobat installed, go into Settings, Printers and
> Faxes, right-click on Adobe PDF and select "Set as Default Printer".
>
> It would be very unfriendly for you to have your script change the
> default printer.  Users do not expect that.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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