Date Stamp Attachments

[Guest]

I have a customer that wants to be able to print attachments from Outlook and
include an automatically generated date on the printed attachment. Any help
would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Would the file types of these attachments always be known? You'd only use
Outlook programming part of the way, as editing the file associated with the
attachment would require the use of any available APIs that can work with
that file type. For example, if it's a Word attachment, you'd use the Word
Object Model to edit the file; the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library for
ASCII based files; Excel for .xls, whatever Adobe API's exist for .pdfs, etc.
etc.

You'd actually only use Outlook for saving the attachments locally in any
case. You'd need to use the Win32 API to execute a print command for the
modified files, or even maybe the API for the document type itself to print
it from the associated application. Your Outlook code would also need to
delete the temporarily saved attachment once it is edited and printed.

 

[Guest]

Word and Adobe Acrobat would be the two formats.
If I understand correctly, I would use Outlook Object Model to save the
attachment in a location on the hard drive, then open the document using the
Word Object Model and add the date stamp and save the file with the new date
information. Is that correct? Since I'm new at the programming, I'm
paraphrasing what I think you are saying. Am I correct?

 

[Guest]

Yup, you got it. I've never worked with Adobe's APIs before, so I can't help
you there. I'm sure there's an SDK on their website; hopefully it's easy to
figure out.

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Eric Legault (Outlook MVP, MCDBA, MCTS: Messaging & Collaboration)
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[Guest]

Thanks Eric,

I'll take a look at Adobe's website.