creating a pdf file automatically from vb6

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Jon in Canby Or. - 28 Feb 2005 18:59 GMT

I know there are products out there that create a pdf file by using a print
driver, but they all (to my limited knowledge) seem to require a user to
choose the file name and folder that the file is going to. I have a vb6
application that creates an html file and I want it to convert that file to a
pdf file without the user being involved. Does anybody have a clue how to do
that and what products I'd need?

Cheers,
Jon

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Veign - 28 Feb 2005 19:04 GMT

You could try PDFCreator as www.sourceforge.net..

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> I know there are products out there that create a pdf file by using a print
> driver, but they all (to my limited knowledge) seem to require a user to
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> Cheers,
> Jon

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Jon in Canby Or. - 28 Feb 2005 23:05 GMT

Thanks. I've downloaded and am trying PDFCreator. I've set it up to do the
autosave so it doesn't prompt the user for a filename to save it under but
I'm struggling to get it to actually print the htm file I created. I have set
PDFCreator to be the default printer. It seems to me that I need to use the
shell command as in: Shell "print C:\file.htm" , but when I do this it tries
to print it under a printer that was previously set to be the default.

There has to be an easier and more reliable way to do this. Any clues?

Cheers,
Jon

> You could try PDFCreator as www.sourceforge.net..
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> > Jon

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creating a pdf file automatically from vb6