Adobe COM with Python

[Andy W]

I'm wanting to automate Adove Acrobat Reader using Com thru Python and
win32com, but i can't find any documentation for the Adobe stuff? Has
anyone done anything with Acrobat COM ?

I've searched Google groups and the web but am unable to find anything.

Thanks

Andy

[Benjamin Niemann]

Re: Adobe COM with Python

Andy W wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm wanting to automate Adove Acrobat Reader using Com thru Python and
> win32com, but i can't find any documentation for the Adobe stuff? Has
> anyone done anything with Acrobat COM ?
>
> I've searched Google groups and the web but am unable to find anything.[/color]

I have not hacked Acrobat yet, but done a bit with InDesign - Adobe's
documentation is less than perfect, but still pretty good. You might look
at
<http://partners.adobe. com/public/developer/acrobat/sdk/index_doc.html# js>
- in InDesign I could easily map the methods and attributes from the JS
documentation to COM calls (the JS members start with lowercase - e.g.
'properties' -, while COM need uppercase - 'Properties').


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[Andy W]

Re: Adobe COM with Python

What i want to do is use, python COM to fireup Adobe and print the pdf
file to a printer.

import win32com.client
import pythoncom

pythoncom.CoIni tializeEx(pytho ncom.COINIT_APA RTMENTTHREADED)
acro = win32com.client .DispatchEx('PD F.PdfCtrl.1')


The above does not work, Do i need to install the SDK as well ?

I'm new to this COM stuff as you can guess.

Benjamin Niemann wrote:[color=blue]
> Andy W wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>I'm wanting to automate Adove Acrobat Reader using Com thru Python and
>>win32com, but i can't find any documentation for the Adobe stuff? Has
>>anyone done anything with Acrobat COM ?
>>
>>I've searched Google groups and the web but am unable to find anything.[/color]
>
>
> I have not hacked Acrobat yet, but done a bit with InDesign - Adobe's
> documentation is less than perfect, but still pretty good. You might look
> at
> <http://partners.adobe. com/public/developer/acrobat/sdk/index_doc.html# js>
> - in InDesign I could easily map the methods and attributes from the JS
> documentation to COM calls (the JS members start with lowercase - e.g.
> 'properties' -, while COM need uppercase - 'Properties').
>
>[/color]