Re: OLE/COM stuff - let's have some fun with Word andAcrobat!
| From: | Andy Hoffman | Date: | Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:58:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OLE/COM stuff - let's have some fun with Word andAcrobat! | ||
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alain samoun wrote:
> I'm guessing that with COM I could open those Word files and have them saved
> using the PDFmaker function in Word. They don't need to be anything fancy,
> and all of the documents are very standard 8 1/2 x 11 text documents.
If you have a licensed copy of Acrobat installed on the server, how about doing
some COM/OLE automation to have MS Word print the files out to Acrobat
Assistant, and then copy-rename the PDF files from there? Yes, I realize OLE
automation is not everybody's FAVORITE way of doing things, especially on a web
server, but it's worth a try, right?
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Andy Hoffman
Web Developer
Bristol-Myers Squibb
email: andy.hoffman@bms.com