Karen, Does the damn thing work from a C:> ?
"c:\program files\adobe\acrobat4\acrobat\acrobat.exe" /p /h c:\temp\illjoe.pdf works from my C:> If yours works from the C:>, It will work in the Script. Just change the line in the script for the Acrobat EXE to match yours. on my Script, just change the Launch to: zip WScript PrintPdf.vbs c:\temp\illjoe.pdf and it will still work OK: ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:20 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Gave up on the Launch > > Well, I've just given up. I tried Alastair's formation of the Launch > command, but his had no spaces in the directory hierarchy and > mine does. > > What I did was copy AcroRd32.exe to the c:\ directory and tried > the launch to see if the spaces in the directory names made a > difference, but it still doesn't print out. In its simplest form, it looks > like: > > LAUNCH 'c:\acrord32.exe|/p /h c:\504209.pdf' > > No error message, but still no printing. > > Some people say to use Acrobat.exe instead of Acrord32.exe, so > I copied that to c:\ and also didn't work. > > I tried Mike's .vbs script, changed it to use my directory of: > "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" > > Called it with: launch 'printdoc.vbs|c:\504209-1.pdf' > > Same thing, no error but no printing. I'm thinking there's something > I'm missing to be able to print automatically from acrobat, period! > > I'm going to tell the client this can't be done in 6.5++ > > Karen > > --- RBASE-L ================================================ TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. ================================================
