COM / DDE behaves differently in Acrobat Reader 9.0 ??

Hello !
We have a big client application (written in Delphi) which uses DDE extensivelly to handle printing tasks. It works fine with Reader 6.x, 7.x and 8.x but we are unable to make it work with the latest Reader 9.0.
We create an instance of Adobe Reader as an OLE object and control it using DDE but this method seems to fail with the new Reader 9.0's in-proc instances. (We need DDE FilePrintTo to direct printing to different devices without any user interaction ...)
One of the symptom is that there is not a visible separate Adobe Reader process for our OLE object in TaskManager anymore ...
Anybody else experiencing similar problem ? Is there any workaround available ?
Thank you for any suggestion ...

Leonard - we use the best from both technologies - OLE & DDE - unfortunately all OLE exposed methods implement printing to the default printer only - meanwhile DDE FilePrintTo can print to any printer specified ...
This is not about DDE being depreciated - standalone Acrobat Reader 9.0 can still be controlled via DDE the same way like the previous versions - what has changed is that the OLE created Reader instances are now in-proc - while 8.x's OLE instances ran out-of-proc ...
Why is there no OLE method similar to FilePrintTo - that could be passed a requested printer as a parameter ??

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