Print hyperlinked documents direct from database

[mcpearce]

Hi Guys,



I have a table, tblDocuments, with a field 'Link' which is a hyperlink to a PDF file.

I have made a form, frmWorkbook, where I select a number of documents from tblDocuments, and enter the number of copies I need of each.

I would like to develop some code to open and print the necessary number of each document rather than opening each document individually, but I have no idea where to start and I can't seem to find any applicable threads.

Any suggestions or other Threads you could recommend I looked at?

Regards,

Mitch

[ItsMe]

It has been a while since I have written code for this type of thing. Back in the day, printer drivers only spooled a few file types, eg Raw and Prn. I can't remember all of the details but I believe it is a two step process. Convert the file to prn or acceptable file format and then spool it. I think what I did was use the printer driver to do the conversion to prn and then used the FileSystemObject's copy method to spool. Here is some code from one of my DB's.

'    '   Use the copy file method to send RAW files to a printer device
    'Print a RAW file
    Dim FSO As FileSystemObject
    Set FSO = New FileSystemObject
    FSO.CopyFile strMapFile, strPrinter
    Set FSO = Nothing

Did not find anything on the conversion process yet. You might be able to simply copy the PDF directly to the printer.

Edit:
I was able to use adobe reader to send a pdf to the default printer using Shell and Command Line
The trick here is to close the new window after Adobe launches. This code opens the window maximized so I can see what is going on. After you get it working to your liking, you could use minimized.

Dim stAppName As String
Dim strPrintSwitch As String
Dim strPath As String
stAppName = ""
strPrintSwitch = ""
strPath = ""

strPrintSwitch = "/t "
strPath = "C:\Test\test.pdf"

    stAppName = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe " & strPrintSwitch & strPath
    Call Shell(stAppName, 1)

[mcpearce]

Thanks sometimes helpful! Looks reasonably straight forward. Will try it soon and report back with the final results