I got it to work! My problem with trying it from the command prompt was that I was using the Pipe character there, forgetting that it was an RBase Launch thing until someone else (forget who it was) asked you what the pipe was for! So once I navigated to my directory (c:\program files\adobe\acrobat 5.0\acrobat) then it worked. So I changed your vbs script to put my path in there, call it with the "zip" command, and I'll be darned it works.
Thank you so much!
Karen
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]>
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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
>
>
