Automating pdf printing in Excel

Hi
I've searched all over the Adobe website for some basic product information and failed completely. Hopefully, someone here will be able to help me.
I'm looking to write some VBA code in Excel that will effectively do a mail merge and produce a number - about 300 - of tailored pdf files (or one large pdf file made up of a number of tailored documents). But I can't find out from the website whether this is possible with Acrobat and if it is, which version I would need.
The main requirements are:
* Printing to pdf controllable via VBA so that there is no user intervention - ie the filename can be set automatically in code without any nasty "sendkeys" type hack
* Ability to append a number of documents into one pdf file
Thanks for your help,
A

Ok, the reason for the question was licensing: different products
needed. In this case, Acrobat Professional (perhaps Acrobat Standard)
would fit the bill. As a developer with Acrobat you would want the
Acrobat SDK, a vast collection of documentation on how to automate
Acrobat, often missing all the things that people most want to do.
You can
* Use the Distiller API to bypass the filename prompt when printing to
PDF. (This implies you use Excel automation to get as far as choosing
the Adobe PDF printer, and "printing").
* Use the Acrobat API to remote control Acrobat to open a PDF, and add
pages from other PDFs, then finally save.
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