Print pdf document from vb .net application

[Sameer Parekh]

Hello everyone,

We are automating a paper based process and hence need to print certain
pdf documents through our VB .Net Application. Any ideas how that can be
done?

Thanks



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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Print pdf document from vb .net application

"Sameer Parekh" <parekhs@myheal thchoice.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
> We are automating a paper based process and hence need to print certain
> pdf documents through our VB .Net Application.[/color]

Simple solution (this solution doesn't give you much control about
printing):

Printing files of various types without user interaction
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=printingany file&lang=en>

In addition to that, you may want to take a closer look at Adobe Acrobat,
Adobe Reader and the PDF library:

Adobe PDF Library SDK
<URL:http://partners.adobe. com/public/developer/pdf/library/>

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[Sameer Parekh]

Re: Print pdf document from vb .net application

I tried running this with a series of documents and it only prints out
the first one. It runs through the code, but does not print out
subsequent documents.
Any ideas?
Thanks



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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Print pdf document from vb .net application

"Sameer Parekh" <parekhs@myheal thchoice.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
>I tried running this with a series of documents and it only prints out
> the first one. It runs through the code, but does not print out
> subsequent documents.
> Any ideas?[/color]


You can try to wait until the first document has been sent to the printer
(untested!):

\\\
Dim p As Process = Process.Start(. ..)
p.WaitForExit()

' Print next document...
///

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[Sameer Parekh]

Re: Print pdf document from vb .net application

Well, I did try the same yesterday, but when there are 2 pdf documents,
it prints the first one and then the program just seems to be waiting.
At that point the adobe application is running, and if I close it out,
then it prints the subsequent document. Any ideas?
Thanks



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[Rob Nicholson]

Re: Print pdf document from vb .net application

> We are automating a paper based process and hence need to print certain[color=blue]
> pdf documents through our VB .Net Application. Any ideas how that can be
> done?[/color]

Not much help but I can say that we found printing PDF documents in our
previous VB6 application to be a real problem. Whilst Acrobat does have an
API, there were some glaring omissions like the inability to specify
different paper trays for page 1 than for page 2 - a typical requirement in
printing on letter head and continuation paper. In the end we had to try and
battle with the Word API to print complex documents.

I dare say there are solutions to this but they were a real overkill of our
simple requirement.

Good luck!

Cheers, Rob.