Re: Writing to a file already open in another application

2002-11-27 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I thought so, yes. On 27.11.2002 15:29:27 Illiano, Vincent wrote: > Is Acrobat OLE-Automatable? My controlling application is an MFC app, so I > could easily establish an OLE connection to Acrobat if that's possible. Jeremias Maerki

Re: Writing to a file already open in another application

2002-11-27 Thread Noel Golding
If the pdf is launched in the IE browser, it does not lock the file. - Original Message - From: "Jeremias Maerki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: Re: Writing to a file already open in another app

RE: Writing to a file already open in another application

2002-11-27 Thread Illiano, Vincent
Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Writing to a file already open in another application > > You can't because Acrobat has an exclusive lock on the file. There's no > way to release that lock other than to tell Acrobat

Re: Writing to a file already open in another application

2002-11-27 Thread Jeremias Maerki
You can't because Acrobat has an exclusive lock on the file. There's no way to release that lock other than to tell Acrobat to close the file either by closing the window with the mouse or by closing the file over OLE automation (not an easy task in Java). By the way, GhostScript doesn't lock the

Writing to a file already open in another application

2002-11-27 Thread Illiano, Vincent
Hi Fellow FOPers, I've run into a problem when generating pdf's with FOP. When the target pdf file is already open in Acrobat, or any other application for that matter, FOP cannot regenerate the pdf file. I see the following message in the FOP console window (running fop.bat): java.io.FileNotFo