adobe pdf driver

[Walter_Gallieni@adobeforums.com]

Hi, I'm trying to use the "adobe pdf" driver in Microsoft Business Solution Navision and in Visual Basic. My interest is to set the path/name of the file pdf before printing it, that is saving it to disk. In this way I'm able to retrieve the file afterwards. Can anyone help me going through this?

Thanks in advance
Walter Gallieni

[Bruce.Thomas@adobeforums.com]

Adobe pulled this feature from Acrobat 6.0. You no longer are able to write the pdf filename to the registry like you could with acrobat 4.0 and 5.0 as you are aware. I've tried a workaround using the VB 'Name' function and renaming the file before writing another but Acrobat does not consistently write the pdf to the same directory so this is not a good solution. We're looking for a non-adobe solution since adobe has apparently abandoned this part of the market.

[rmcmullan@adobeforums.com]

If you're using VB, you can try printing to a file using a Postscript printer and using the Distiller ActiveX to convert that PS file to a PDF. The ActiveX will direct the output it anywhere you want.