PdDoc.Save()

I am having trouble saving a pdf. I'm using the SDK in C#. My project just grabs a bunch of pdf files and merges them.
I have added a COM reference to Acrobat.
I open the first one manually using avDoc, then with pdDoc.
Then I loop through the rest of the files and append them to the first doc.
After I am done merging, I try to save by using pdDoc.Save(), but for the first argument nType, I can't get any value to work in there. I tried putting PDSaveFull, but that didn't show up in intellisense and it gave me an error, then i tried to put 1, but that just returned false.
Am I missing some other reference? Or am I just doing something completely wrong?

After playing around with it more, I got it. Thanks =)

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I have thought to use a VB macro in the excel file to populate the pdf. I have been searching on Internet but by now, I am only able to read the values of the fields, but I can't change them. I know that the code below doesn't work with XFA Forms, but I have read a lot of documentation and I can't find anything else.
Here is the code:
Set gApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.app")
Set avDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
If avDoc.Open(FileNm, "") Then
   Set pdDoc = avDoc.GetPDDoc()
   Set jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject()
jso.Getfield("FrmSolicitudTransferenciaEuros[0].FormContent[0].ordena nte[0].datosOrdenanteExterno[0].ordenante[0]").Value = "new value"
    pdDoc.Save 1, FileNm
    pdDoc.Close
End If
avDoc.Close (True)
Can anybody write an example explaining how to do that with XFA?
Thank you in advance.

You might want to instead use an XML schema to map cells in your Excel spreadsheet to fields in your form. Then you would just export the XML data from your spreadsheet and import it into your form to populate the fields.
That should get you started. Refer to Excel and LiveCycle Designer documentation for further details.
Kyle

Acrobat Pro 9 IAC Detect Corrupt File (TIFF)

I am trying to convert a huge number of tif files into pdf files, and most of the time the code below works fine, using the IAC to control Acrobat.
try
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avDoc.Open(@"D:\Bad Files\file1.TIF", "");
CAcroPDDoc pdDoc = (CAcroPDDoc)avDoc.GetPDDoc();
pdDoc.Save(3, @"D:\Bad Files\file1.pdf");
avDoc.Close(1);
catch (Exception ex)
MessageBox.Show("Caught!");
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"Acrobat could not open 'file1.TIF' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)."
There is no exception thrown, so the program hangs while it waits for someone to click OK on the message. Is there any way to disable this popup so that the program can continue? I'm not bothered about it throwing an exception, because the pdDoc.Save throws one anyway if the file didn't open successfully.
I have seen a conversation on a forum somewhere suggesting that we should not use the CAcroAVDoc class, we should just use "PDDoc.Open" instead, but PDDoc doesn't seem to exist. I tried using CAcroPDDoc but as far as I can see it can only be instantiated by the instance of CAcroAVDoc and it doesn't have any static methods on it.
We are using Adobe Acrobat Professional version 9.

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