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Produce PDF from .DOC with Acrobat 7
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From
05/03/2005 09:30:02
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00993005
Message ID:
00993007
Views:
19
Perhaps something like a "Print" command (selecting the "Adobe PDF" printer) might help?

I guess some information will be lost; specifically, no labels will be created.

>Hi there,
>
>Having a hard time resolving this one.
>
>In one of my apps I use automation to have Microsoft Word build a bunch of .DOC files, transform them into PDF and publish them on a given website.
>
>For the PDF production I resorted on a macro installed by Acrobat.
>goApp.oWord.RUN("AdobePDFMaker.AutoExec.ConvertToPDF") and the mass was said :)
>
>Actobat 7 changed all this. It does not rely on a macro anymore. It has a COM Object that you can call from within Word or even Windows Explorer when you rightclick on a given file.
>
>There is a TLB file in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\PDFMaker\Office that I can open with the object browser. But that's pretty all I can do.
>
>I looked on the Internet and found nothing really interesting to show me the right object to instantiate and how to manipulate it.
>
>Any clue?
>
>José
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