NEED HELP: Merge multiple word/pdf documents into a single proposal [SELF RESOLVED]

[zen_master]

Dear guys,

I'm currently on the last phase of my quote software that i'm writing for my internship...

my boss asked me so that the program will able to choose multiple documents that the customer requested during quote (term of sales, payment method, machine drawing, etc) into a single proposal

there are a lot of documents.....approximately, 10 or more....the idea is to put them as radio button......and the sales people can select which documents the customer request.....when the guy click OK (say, 6 out of 10 selected), i need to merge them into a single document (pdf or doc)....

then, the salesman will be able to send it as an attachment trough email....

is this whole idea possible to do?

please help me.

thank you!

-cal

[zen_master]

bumped. no idea? no suggestion?

if it's not possible.......(at least in my knowledge right now), i've to let my boss know and find another solution/approach

[Asgorath]

get Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and it can create a single pdf from multiple types of documents.

[zen_master]

i need to control it from my program VB.NET.....

can i control adobe acrobat using codes?

[Asgorath]

no you can't control it vb.net.

I've download the trial version of this .net library http://www.o2sol.com/pdf4net/products.htm , but have not tested it.

[zen_master]

ck.....this sucked.

i've done some research also...they're offering free trial of pdfmaker DLL..

if that's the only way, anybody here got any experience about it? maybe a suggestin which product?

in that case......if that's really working, then i'll contact the department to buy em...

[zen_master]

bumped for the day.

still need some help..

[zen_master]

bumped again...

seems like nobody know about this?

[zen_master]

hehehe..

seems like people around here don't have much of an idea about this....but, luckily, i found out how to do it....it's quite simple, actually..

u need to install adobe acrobat professional...and then, add reference of "Acrobat" into your project...

then, the code...is simply:

Dim oPDF As Acrobat.CAcroPDDoc
        Dim oTemp As Acrobat.CAcroPDDoc
 
        Dim nPagesTo As Long
        Dim nPagesFrom As Long
        
        oPDF = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
        oPDF.Open("C:\sample.PDF")
        nPagesTo = oPDF.GetNumPages
 
        oTemp = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
        oTemp.Open("C:\sample2.PDF")
        nPagesFrom = oTemp.GetNumPages
 
        oPDF.InsertPages(nPagesTo - 1, oTemp, 0, nPagesFrom, True)
        oPDF.Save(Acrobat.PDSaveFlags.PDSaveFull, "C:\sample3.PDF")
 
        oPDF.Close()
        oPDF = Nothing
        oTemp.Close()
        oTemp = Nothing

where, as you can see....in this example, we mix sample.pdf and sample2.pdf into sample3.pdf....

[jd_surat]

Hi Zen_Master

I am having the same requirement as urs (converting docs to PDF and merge them). I installed Acrobat 7.0 professional and started using APIs provided.

I have successfully converted other docs to PDF. But now the merging seems to be a problem. I am doing the same as you. The error I am getting when it executes InsertPages method.

Error description is 'Object doesn't support this property or method : 'InsertPages'.

The object browser in VB 6.0, Visual Studio.NET 2003 displays this method as a public part of AcroPDDoc class. I tried VB 6.0, VB.NET and VBScript. But I am getting same error again and again.

Please help me if you were across this issue.

Many Thanks
Jigar

[jd_surat]

Solved..

The problem with 2 different version installed on the same machine. Wrong reference was getting inserted.

Cheers
Jigar

[zen_master]

yo!

sorry...i didn't check out this thread for a while...

it's good that you solved it! =)

[johnny_342]

Hello JD SURAT,

Can you please post an example regarding how did you convert a doc file into pdf using adobe API.

Thanks,
Johnny

Hi Zen_Master

I am having the same requirement as urs (converting docs to PDF and merge them). I installed Acrobat 7.0 professional and started using APIs provided.

I have successfully converted other docs to PDF. But now the merging seems to be a problem. I am doing the same as you. The error I am getting when it executes InsertPages method.

Error description is 'Object doesn't support this property or method : 'InsertPages'.

The object browser in VB 6.0, Visual Studio.NET 2003 displays this method as a public part of AcroPDDoc class. I tried VB 6.0, VB.NET and VBScript. But I am getting same error again and again.

Please help me if you were across this issue.

Many Thanks
Jigar