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Hello. My goal is to print Adobe PDF files from a Perl script without any
user intervention. I have been experimenting with various methods and am
now trying to use Win32::OLE to control Adobe Acrobat Exchange (v5.0.5).
Please refer to the code below. I can create the acrobat object, open the
document and retrieve some information from the document. My problems are:

1. Although I make acrobat visible using the show method, only the
application becomes visible, not the document. How do I fix this?

2. What is the method to print the document once it has been opened? The
"PrintPagesEx" method produces an error "Win32::OLE 0.1701) error
0x80020003: "Member not found" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "" at jps2.pl line 30".
I then tried to loop through the hash referenced by the $doc variable but no
output from the hash was printed.

3. As an aside, if someone can provide me with the class name for Acrobat
Reader (not Acrobat exchange, as I have coded below) that would be great (or
inform me how to find it). I am relatively inexperienced in the world of
OLE Automation so any hints would be helpful.


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#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const "Acrobat";
our $g_file_input = shift @ARGV;
die "Usage: $0 filename\n" unless $g_file_input;

sub process_main {
my $acrobat = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.App","Quit");
my $doc = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.PDDoc");
$doc->Open( ${g_file_input} ) or die("Could not open $g_file_input: $!\n");
$acrobat->show;
print "Title=",$doc->GetInfo("Title"),"\n\n";

#This does not work

#$doc->PrintPagesEx(1,5,2,'True','True','False','True',' True','PDAllPages');

}

sub main {
print "PDF program\n";
&process_main();
print "Ending now\n";
}

&main();
exit 0;
###############

"Domenico Discepola" <> wrote in
message news:BpAJc.26617$...
>
> 3. As an aside, if someone can provide me with the class name for Acrobat
> Reader (not Acrobat exchange, as I have coded below) that would be great
(or
> inform me how to find it). I am relatively inexperienced in the world of
> OLE Automation so any hints would be helpful.
>

4.1 Differences Among the Acrobat Viewers

Acrobat supports all of the OLE automation methods
listed in this chapter.

The Acrobat Reader does not support OLE automation.


For more info: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/docs/iacovr.pdf

(And I don't have Exchange, so I can't help you with the rest.)

Matt

"Matt Garrish" <> wrote in message
news:6EEJc.26179$ ...
>
> Acrobat supports all of the OLE automation methods
> listed in this chapter.
>
> The Acrobat Reader does not support OLE automation.
>
>
> For more info: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/docs/iacovr.pdf
>

Success! Here is the code that opens up and prints a PDF using Win32::OLE
and Acrobat Exchange (v5.0.5 is the version I have). Thanks for the link to
Acrobat Exchange's OLE Objects and Methods. Too bad that Acrobat Reader
doesn't support OLE automation - I'm sure more people could have benefited
from this.

######################
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const "Acrobat";
our $g_file_input = shift @ARGV;
die "Usage: $0 filename\n" unless $g_file_input;

sub process_main {
my $acrobat = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.App", "Quit");
my $avdoc = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.AVDoc");
$avdoc->Open( $g_file_input, "" );
my $pddoc = Win32::OLE->new("AcroExch.PDDoc");
$pddoc->Open( $g_file_input);
my $pp = $pddoc->GetNumPages; #index starts at 0
if ( $pp ) {
$pp--;
}
print "Num pages: $pp\n";
$avdoc->PrintPagesSilent(0,$pp,1,1,0);
$acrobat->Exit;
}

sub main {
print "PDF program\n";
&process_main();
print "Ending now\n";
}

&main();
exit 0;