When the code runs it will use the VB6 printing system to create a print job. This print job is sent to the PDF Writer and converted to a PDF file. The conversion to PDF will use the settings that are saved to a runonce.ini file before the print is started.
After the print job is sent to the printer/spooler the code will wait for the runonce.ini file to disappear. This will make sure that the user cannot click the button again before the current settings are read by the PDF Writer.
Create Pdf File From Vb6 Code
The software used to create the bot provides a function to invoke VB code, but I don't believe it can access any externally imported libraries because it expects plain source, so I essentially need to produce code that one could run in a VB shell environment without anything fancy (or convenient, it seems).
Also, the mod adds bookmarks using the file names of the many PDF, with scrub code toget rid of some ugly file names (you may have to expound upon that if you need toscrub the file names to bookmark names), into the single pdf file.
Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker (the Convert To Adobe PDF button in the PDFMaker toolbar/tab) is an add-in that creates PDF files from Microsoft Office applications. This feature installs with Acrobat Professional and Standard.
This document can help you troubleshoot problems that occur when you try to create PDF files from Office applications using Acrobat PDFMaker. Although this document is specific to Microsoft Word, most of the troubleshooting procedures also apply to Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel.
If you can create a PDF file with the Adobe PDF printer or Acrobat Distiller, but not with Acrobat PDFMaker, the problem could be with an Acrobat PDFMaker feature. To determine if any of these features is the cause of your problem, disable them. Then, try to create a PDF file:
The /a switch starts Word and prevents add-ins and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically. The /a switch also locks the setting files; that is, the setting files cannot be read or modified if you use this switch.
If you resolve the issue when you rename the global template, then the issue is a damaged Normal.dot template. It's sometimes necessary to change several settings to restore your options. If the Normal.dot file you renamed contains customizations, such as styles, macros, or AutoText entries that cannot be easily re-created, try using the Organizer to copy those customizations from the old Normal.dot file to the new Normal.dot file.
vbPDF is the only class for Basic language (Visual Basic 6.0/.NET/20xx, ASP, PowerBasic) that allows you to create documents PDF from any application without using any OCXs or DLL or other external library: only pure standard language.
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After you select your Visual Basic project template and name your file, Visual Studio opens a form for you.A form is a Windows user interface.You'll create a "Hello World" application by adding controls to the form.
i am making program in VB6 and i want to print RPT file using Adobe PDF printer which already installed with adobe reader and how can i use printtofile option in code to create PDF file when i print to Adobe PDF printer?
Both of these code samples use implicit object creation. Microsoft Office Word 2003 does not start until the variable is called at least one time. Because the variable may be called in different parts of the program, the problem may be difficult to locate. It may be difficult to verify that the problem is caused when the Application object is created or when the Document object is created.Instead, you can make explicit calls to create each object separately, as follows.
Use the Erl command to report the line number of the line of code that does not succeed. This may help you debug applications that cannot run in the IDE. The following code tells you which Automation object cannot be created (Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office Excel 2003):
Test for possible corruption of the Normal.dot template or of the Excel.xlb resource file. Problems may occur when you automate Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel if either the Normal.dot template in Word or the Excel.xlb resource file in Excel is corrupted. To test these files, search the local hard disks for all instances of Normal.dot or of Excel.xlb.Note You may find multiple copies of these files. There is one copy of each of these files for each user profile that is installed on the system.Temporarily rename the Normal.dot files or the Excel.xlb files, and then rerun your automation test. Word and Excel both create these files if they cannot find them. Verify that the code works. If the code works when a new Normal.dot file is created, delete the files that you renamed. These files are corrupted. If the code does not work, you must revert these files to their original file names to save any custom settings that are saved in these files.
Determine whether the problem occurs with any out-of-process server. If you have an application that uses a particular COM server (such as Word), test a different out-of-process server to make sure that the problem is not occuring in the COM layer itself. If you cannot create an out-of-process COM server on the computer, reinstall the OLE system files as described in the "Reinstalling Microsoft Office" section of this article, or reinstall the operating system to resolve the problem.
-Pete RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? anuc2000 (Programmer)9 Jan 01 14:56But when I tried to do this it keeps promptiomg for a file name to save as.Is there a way we can bypass that manual step thro codeanu challa RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? species8472 (IS/IT--Management)10 Jan 01 13:30Question: Are you trying to print PDF to printer or are you trying to create PDF file using PDFWriter (as virtual printer)?In the first case, I can't help you much. I think you can invoke the Windows Print API to route PDF directly to any printer. VB should be able to do it. I've used WinBatch Print function too.In the second case, check WIN.INI file (or Windows registry) and look for section Acrobat PDFWriter. You should see line for PDFFileName. You can insert name of file to be used for creating PDF. This will eliminate the pop-up that asks for file name every time you want to create a PDF. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? baileyhp (Programmer)26 Sep 01 14:17IN VB (you may need a newer version(VB6.0 maybe 5.0) Create a form with the Adobe OCX. Then install the PDF form on here in the OCX. Use VB to call up the different forms.Email me if I can help you more.hbaileyhp@fssa.state.in.us RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? BlindPete (Programmer)27 Sep 01 09:31Baily may be correct. I am using VB6. The nice thing about distiller is it preserves any links your document had, say a table of contents or whatever. -Pete RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? amutinu (Programmer)18 Nov 01 17:05Hi BaileyHP, I am also trying to build an application (VB) to print multiple pdf files. Since i am new to Adobe and VB, can you please share some sample code so that i can get started.thanks,Kiran RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? ejfrench (Programmer)17 Feb 02 15:09I have that same issue...I'm trying to print to using the Acrobat Distiller...it works very well but prompts the user for a storage location for saving the PDF file. Users are making errors and mis-naming the files. I need this functionality to be automatic in VBA (Working in Access97) Any easy answers? Thanks for the help. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? 20132 (Programmer)13 May 02 14:13Hi Leif,Can you post a sample of the code you are using to print at least one file into .pdf file silently in the background. I need to print a Crystal Report into .pdf file from VB6 application. Please help.thank you 20132 RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? eswarn (Programmer)22 May 02 00:19Hello,U try this with "ACG PDF & Mail" Component.RegardsEswar RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? baileyhp (Programmer)22 May 02 14:22Sorry to take so long. You simply need to input the reference to the acrobat page in your vb. create the form in vb, select the page you wish to view, the use the vb code to view the form. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? 20132 (Programmer)16 Aug 02 11:50This is a question to ejfrench: can you please post a sample of the code on how to print an Access report to .pdf or .ps file using VBA. THank you.20132 RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? ejfrench (Programmer)19 Aug 02 20:29this is to 20132...as a couple of folks have said above, you need to install acrobat distiller and set it up as a printer, it will then show up in the printer list. Printing the report without having the Adobe file dialog box show up is trickier. I have code at work that I could share...but I find it much easier to just use Microsoft Snapshot format. Very easy (and cheap) to code using the OutputTo command in VBA. No "distiller" type program is needed since the ability to create snapshot files comes with Access. Users reading the snapshots will need snapshot viewer but it's installed by default if they have Access and free from Microsoft website if they don't. The drawback is that snapshot files don't have the functionality that Acrobat does...no searching, annotating, text copying, etc. But for simple printing from an electronic version it's really handy and so easy to code. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? 20132 (Programmer)20 Aug 02 09:59Hi ejfrench,Thank you very much for your comments. I do have a need to print it to both .pdf and snapshot format. I clearly understand I will need an Acrobat Distiller. Therefore, I would appreciate you sharing the code with me. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? Hopsy38 (Programmer)20 Aug 02 17:51Adobe5 and VB6 are NOT compatable. You have to have a PSPrinter to connect the two fo them. This creates a .ps extention from a word doc. You have to call the distiller to convert to a PDF. I use a VB program to read an excel spreadsheet, if pub col = yes then I open word, call the PSPrinter, the distiller and post to the web. Here is a section of code for that process. Just as a side note, do you realize that VB6 is not compatable with VB5? If you are upgrading to VB6 from 5 you may loose some of your dll's depending on the dll being used. There is a download on the MS site to correct this problem, look at: " ;Public Sub ConvertFiles()'open word, create ps, launch distiller,clean out "IN" On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim intCounter, intFileCounter As Integer Dim Wor As Object Dim Dist As ACRODISTXLib.PdfDistiller 'calls distiller. Dim Doc As Word.Document Dim Wrd As Word.Documents Dim optionsFile As String Dim w As Word.Application Set Wor = CreateObject("Word.Application")Set Wrd = Wor.Documents Word.ActivePrinter = "HP LaserJet 5/5M PostScript" lblAction = "Converting files" ProgressBar.Max = intFlyerCounter For intCounter = 1 To intFlyerCounter DoEvents ProgressBar.Value = intCounter If Record(intCounter).strPublish = "Yes" Then For intFileCounter = 1 To Record(intCounter).intNumberOfFiles txtActions = txtActions & "Converting " & Record(intCounter).aryFileNames(intFileCounter) & vbCrLf txtActions.SelStart = Len(txtActions) 'at the end of the sreadsheet, will show an error, its at EOF Set Doc = Wrd.Open(strFrom & Record(intCounter).aryFileNames(intFileCounter)) Doc.PrintOut 0, 0, 0, OutputFileName:="\\folderForThePSFile\In\" & Mid(Record(intCounter).aryFileNames(intFileCounter), 1, 8) If (pdfDist Is Nothing) Then Set pdfDist = New PdfDistiller pdfDist.bSpoolJobs = True End If optionsFile = "Print.joboptions" pdfDist.FileToPDF "\\forThePSFile\In\" & Mid(Record(intCounter).aryFileNames(intFileCounter), 1, 8), "\\forThePDF\Out\", optionsFile txtActions = txtActions & Record(intCounter).aryFileNames(intFileCounter) & " converted" & vbCrLf txtActions.SelStart = Len(txtActions) Wrd.Close Next End If Next txtFilesUploaded = intNumberOfFilesCopied lblAction = "Finished converting files" ProgressBar.Value = 0 Wor.Quit Kill "\\clears out the in folder\In\*.*" 'This is going to be a kill stmnt to clean out the "IN" folderExit SubErrorHandler: If Err.Number = 462 Or Err.Number = -2147023173 Or Err.Number = -2147023170 Or Err.Number = -2147417848 Then 'errors generated by Acrobat Resume Next End If txtActions = txtActions & "ConvertFiles" & vbCrLf & "Error Number: " & Err.Number & vbCrLf & "Error msg: " & Err.Description & vbCrLf & Err.Source & vbCrLf txtActions.SelStart = Len(txtActions) Resume NextEnd Sub**************************************this section belongs in a module************************************** Private Const ACROBAT_APP = "Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\5.0\InstallPath" Private Const OPTIONS_EXT = ".joboptions" Public pdfDist As PdfDistiller Private bWorking As Booleanhope it helps, MS and Adobe really should be ashamed of their selves. RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? Guest (visitor)6 Sep 02 02:30To stop the Distiller from prompting for filenames do the following:Right-click on the distiller printer and choose properties.Click on "Printing Preferences"Choose the tab named "Adobe PDF Settings"Remove the selections for "Prompt for the PDF filename" and "View Result In Acrobat"And make sure that the PDF-Port is set to somewhere generic instead of the default path to your own documents (in the "Ports" tab on the main properties window, select "Add Port" and choose "PDF Port" and point it at the dir of your choosing).Cheers RE: How to print PDF-files from within a VB application...? joelap (MIS)23 Oct 02 11:29HI,I found a product that works really well. It works in Access/VBA. You can set the filename programitically, merge PDF files. It isn't a VB module, it is a MDE Database. 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