Re: off topic: acrobat and dde

[Severin Obertuefer <severinobertuefer@gmx.ch>]

Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 25.03.2005 um 10:00 schrieb Severin Obertuefer:
>
>> i need a html page to bee converted into pdf and then to bee printed 
>> out (on a windows machine) without even open the acrobat reader (in 
>> the foreground). I think with dde this should be possible (right?). i 
>> searched some acrobat dde specifications on the net, but I didn't 
>> found anything useful, so is there a location to download them?
>> if possible i plan to implement oll that stuff with python ...
>
>
> I several times tried to remote control Acrobat (with Perl, VB.NET or 
> Python via COM), but never managed to even only open a document.
> With Acrobat 7 it looks better, but I'm not yet as far as that I could 
> tell you something useful.
> Did you try makepy with the Acrobat DLLs?

if found a small script on the internet that does what I need. It uses 
dde to control adobe acrobat 7.

thanks for your answer

severin

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