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"dupas gwennhael" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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> I have installed Adobe Postscript 3 in order to have a printer which print
into a postscript file on Windows 98.
> When i want to print, i would like not to have the "print into a file"
dialog box. I would like the Adobe postscript printer to print always into
the same file in the same location.
> How can I do that ?
>
> Thanks.

This question is off-topic on this forum. Anyway, here are two solutions:

(1) Set the printer's port to a fixed (disk) file. With Win98, this can be
done from the "Details" tab in the printer's property sheet. Choose "Add
port"/ "Other"/ "Local port"/ when prompted specify the complete file name
you want to print to (with drive letter and path).

(2) If you are writing some software and want to print to a file, use the
lpszOutput menmber of the DOCINFO structure passed to StartDoc(). The
ability to do this depends on your programming language/ compiler/ method
used to print: no problem with C/C++ using GDI calls to print, but you're
out of luck with VB or if using some external object to do the printing.

Hello,
I try to program an application in Visual C++ using DOCINFO structur to tell the driver where to put the pdf resulting file.
If I don't use the lpszOutput field the pdf file is producted in the default path and it is ok.
When I set the field lpszOutput the file is producted in the right path but the file is corrupted.

Is any body can help me ?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Thierry Vorms
tvorms@autodose.ch

exemple

DOCINFO di;
::ZeroMemory (&di, sizeof (DOCINFO));
  di.lpszDocName = strTitle;
  char path[1000];
  strcpy(path, "C:\\MTM2002\\data\\[pdf]\\short.pdf");

di.lpszOutput = (LPCTSTR)path;
 // di.lpszOutput = NULL;
    di.cbSize = sizeof (di);

<Vorms@adobeforums.com> wrote in message news:2ccd8bc8.1@webx.la2eafNXanI...
> ...
> If I don't use the lpszOutput field the pdf file is producted in the
default path and it is ok.
> When I set the field lpszOutput the file is producted in the right path
but the file is corrupted.
> ...

You don't give enough details, but I will assume you print using the
"Acrobat Distiller" PRINTER driver (renamed to "Adobe PDF" in v6, I think).
This driver does not produce PDF directly, it produces PostScript. The port
the driver is connected to sends this PostScript code to Distiller
automatically, so you end up with a PDF file. If you change the port to a
file, that file contains the driver's output, that is PostScript code. You
have to explicitely convert this to PDF, for example using the Acrobat
Distiller APPLICATION via command-line or Automation (since your platform is
Win32). Details on this step are in the Acrobat SDK (note: your program will
be able to fully control the PDF file's name and location).

Hello,
thank you for your explanation.
I dont'have the adobe sdk, and I can't download it because i don't have money to buy it...

Can you explain me how to do for having a pdf file where I need ?

If you want you can directli send me a mail at
tvorms@autodose.ch

Thank you in advance.

P.S Can I use an other Adobe Driver that make pdf file directli ?

- Some of the Acrobat 6 SDK can be downloaded for free (don't know about
those on Distiller). You still need to create a "web account" to download
the free stuff.
- You may already have some of the documents on the Acrobat 6 CD, take a
look there. I don't have v6 yet, but I would expect Distiller command-line
parameters to be documented there.
- I think the Acrobat 5 SDK is still available, and it is (was?) free. Hope
v6 is enough backwards compatible with v5 for your needs...
More than this, sorry, I can't help.

About another printer to create PDF directly: this was PDFWriter, now
(version 6) gone if I undestood correctly. Maybe from another vendor...
However, if that "other vendor" uses a mechanism similar to Distiller
(special port/ etc, so the driver does not create PDF natively), you will
have the same problem: once you set the output port to a file, that file
will be in driver-specific format (usually PostScript), and you will need
another app to convert that format to PDF.