Of course, it’s up to you to decide the path and filename of the PDF output file you’re want to create. Now, the path and filename of the application that is doing the printing is not always easy to figure out, so I can’t solve that mystery here for any given app that you may be using, but I do know (and I forget where I learned this) that for a Visual FoxPro application (.exe), the path and application name can be discovered from the VFP variable “_VFP.ServerName”. So, you create a string value under that key with the path and name of the *application* that is printing the PDf, and then you set the value of that string value to the path and filename of the PDF you want to create. This magic registry key is located at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Distiller\PrinterJobControl.
I use this technique to automatically set the path and filename for my users for the various PDF reports we generate to send out to our customers and vendors.
Adobe pdf printer driver settings windows#
I’m explaining this from the perspective of a Visual FoxPro application, but the issue applies to all Windows applications, and the remedy can come from many programming languages.īackground… It’s well know that you can prevent the Adobe PDF printer driver from prompting the user to choose a path and filename for the output file by programmatically setting a certain registry key with a string value that contains the desired path and filename of PDF file you want to output. So, I want to show the remedy in case others encounter this same problem. My MicroTek scanner is not supported, my HP 2800 Business Inkjet is not supported, and I recently discovered that a technique I use in my Visual FoxPro business application to pre-define the PDF output filename when using the Adobe Acrobat PDF printer driver mysteriously does not work on Windows 64-bit.
Adobe pdf printer driver settings windows 7#
Now that I’ve moved over to Windows 7 64-bit on my primary workstation, I’m in a new world of IT support that I didn’t expect from those extra 32 bits of OS horsepower.
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