Hi John,

You can kill acrobat if you have to. See Re: How to check its opened or release program Message #1266436

>all that fuss and I never tried the print command without loading the file 1st. I had assumed that Adobe had to be open with the correct file before the print command would work.
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>I printed 8 files using just the print command and it worked as advertised. I does leave one empty Adobe session open but I can live with that.
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