Creating PDFs in AutoCAD

Hi,
I'm working at a office where we create drawings in AutoCAD and print thoose to PDF. We are trying to make a automated batch plot from a AutoLISP script. The only problem to make it fully automatic is that we don't know how to send a path to the Adobe PDF plotter.
Does anyone know any way that the Adobe PDF printer can recieve a path instead of the choosen outputfolder in the printer settings? With ActiveX, .NET or VBA.
We are working with Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard.

No you can't - while it is possible to change the .name property of a mesh object within the Acrobat JSAPI, it has no effect on the model tree as seen in the UI and can cause the 3D runtime to crash - so don't bother trying.
mvid wrote:
If you attach a JavaScript to your model it can read and set names for nodes in the model tree, including group nodes.

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