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 <t...@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, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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