Suppress dialog, preset destination file name and location

Question

In acrobat 4 I could write a registry setting that would preset the output
filename and location, print to adobe pdf writer, not get prompted, and the
file would be created with the name and in the location I set.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat PDFWriter]
"PDFFileName"="X:\\Output\\myFileName.pdf"
What is the equivalent in version 8?

Answer 1

Thanks.<br /><br />I will read through it more.<br />Having only worked with the PDFWriter, this is what is new to me:<br />"PrinterJobControl"<br /><br />[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat <br />Distiller\PrinterJobControl]"C:\Program Files\Windows <br />NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" ="c:\MyPDFoutputFileName.pdf"<br /><br />This seems like like I am presetting my application output, correct?<br /><br />>>>><br />Programmatic control<br /><br />Prompting can be turned off programmatically by adding a key to the Windows <br />registry. This method applies to the creation of only one PDF document by a <br />specific application for the current user. To use this method, add the <br />following registry key:<br /><br />HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Distiller\PrinterJobControl<br /><br />This key takes as subkeys:<br /><br />(Default)application<br /><br />The (Default) entry is reserved for possible future use and is not to be <br />used.<br /><br />The application subkey is the full path of the application for which <br />prompting is to be turned off. The value of the application subkey is a <br />REG_SZ value that is the full path of the output file. For example, the <br />following registry script would turn off prompting for the next printing <br />performed by wordpad.exe, printing to the file c:\MyPDFoutputFileName.pdf:<br /><br />Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<br /><br />[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat <br />Distiller\PrinterJobControl]"C:\Program Files\Windows <br />NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" ="c:\MyPDFoutputFileName.pdf"<br /><br />Note:Though the programming language may require that your backslashes are <br />escaped (for example, "c:\\MyPDFoutputFileName.pdf"), the value of the <br />registry entry must use single slashes. This key, once established, remains <br />until used and is removed once the Windows API function StartDoc(HDC hdc, <br />CONST DOCINFO* lpdi) has successfully completed. Also note that the output <br />folder path must already exist with read and write access for the current <br />user and the destination file must not exist.<<<<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><Bernd Alheit> wrote in message news:[email protected]...<br />> Look at the document 'Acrobat Distiller API Reference' of the Acrobat SDK. <br />> There read the section 'Disabling prompts for output file names'.