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Hello,
I'm using the Acrobat Reader ActiveX control in a web page (IE8) to automatically print a PDF document. I don't want to show the preferences dialog box, so I use the "printAllFit" method. This method sends the document to the default printer of the OS.
The problem that I have is that the client uses more than one printer, so I need to change the default printer before the method invocation. But if I change the default printer (manually or programmatically by a custom ocx) the ActiveX is still sending the document to the initial default printer.
I have solved the problem for Acrobe Reader 8 (or lower) by killing the Windows process of the Acobat Reader ("AcroRd32.exe") before a new method invocation, but in Acrobat Reader 9 this process doesn't exist (I think that it is associated to the IE process, and I can't terminate it).
Any idea to solve this problem?
Thank you very much for your help

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