[PDFdev] Adobe 6.0 Standard and MS Office

[Wayne Vincent]

I’ve run into a dead end at Adobe, as they have scaled back the breadth of their support, and I hope someone can help or point me in the right direction.   I have an application that we have been using for years and we are migrating to Office 2003 and Adobe 6.0 from Office 2000 and Adobe 4.x and 5.x.  In a nutshell, the application runs reports in Access via VBA which are outputted as PDF files.  We have automated the process to the point where from code, we switch the printer to Adobe, pass a file name (in 98 the file name is passed directly to Acrobat, in NT and 2000 we set a default name and location and then change it after printing), print a report, verify its existence and then switch back to the previously selected printer.  In previous versions of Acrobat, there were Adobe Knowledge Base articles on how to turn off the file prompting and set default file paths and names.  It was Knowledge Base article 312906 for Adobe 4.x.    I would rather not go with a third part PDF creator, as we have all of the licenses for the Adobe product.  I am not adverse to tools that will assist with this.   What I have.   I have turned off the prompt for file name, which is much easier the editing the registry now.    My software does change the printers without a hitch.   Here is what I need.   If I can set the default filename and path, I easily can change the names after printing.  Currently the end up in the My Documents folder with the name of the report.  Does any one know the registry setting for this?   If I can pass a parameter to alter the name prior to being written, great.   I have looked at AdobePDFMakerX.dll but I am not sure if it is the right tools to use and I have not been able to find any reference info on it.  Is this the correct tool?  Any references available?     Thank you for your help.   Wayne Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Director, Operations MVP International Phone:  800-432-0687 Fax:  713-771-3806 www.mvp-av.com www.mvplightsfantastic.com