print .pdfs programmatically

[sagey]

Just started a new porject that will involve automating the print of .pdf files

I've just tried using this:

NET USE LPT3: "\\box\printername"
TYPE "\\T095118.pdf" > LPT3:
NET USE LPT3: /DELETE

to print and it comes out with loads of gobbledgook.

How can you (in vb or vb.net) do this? i've done a bit of googling and there seems to be a lot of components out there that cost loads of money. are there any free/open source ones?

Any help or pointers ill be much appreciated.

[litlewiki]

goto www.neevia.com they have a good collection of pdf conversion tools and also sample codes in all major languages

[Hack]

Try something like this

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim PrintIt As Long
PrintIt = ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "PRINT", "C:\My Documents\TimeSheet.pdf", "", "", -1)
End Sub

[iPrank]

May be these links will help:
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_print_pdf.html
http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/doc...f-from-vb-2979

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ight=print+pdf

[sagey]

Thanks a lot for the replies.

Hack, how would i go about rewriting your approach for vb.net?

also should it work if i want to print multiple pdf's as i tried adding a second shellexecute line in and it only printed the first doc.

[Hack]

Hack, how would i go about rewriting your approach for vb.net?

Don't know

also should it work if i want to print multiple pdf's as i tried adding a second shellexecute line in and it only printed the first doc.

Load all the file names into something like a listbox, and just loop through feeding the listbox entires to the ShellExecute API.