Using Acrobat Control for Active X in PPT VBA

[Guest]

I am trying to allow users to print pdf files from my PPT presentation. I
was able to get an Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX on my slide but I'm not
sure how to use it. I found somehwere that I could use
Pdf1.LoadFile FilePathNName -- to open a file

Pdf1.Print -- to print a file.

I am a beginner to all this so I don't know how to write out those commands.
Can anyone help me with this?

THANKS!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am trying to allow users to print pdf files from my PPT presentation. I
was able to get an Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX on my slide but I'm not
sure how to use it.

It's not intended as a development tool, so Adobe doesn't document its use, and
they're under no obligation to avoid changing it in ways that might break your
application. Using it is probably not wise.

Do you want your users to be able to print TO PDF from your presentation or to
be able to cause external PDFs to print? Older versions of Acrobat and Reader
supported a /P command line parameter that caused a file to print; Adobe's
removed this one too, it seems.

In the interest of saving a few trees (hey, it's Earth Day after all) would it
make sense simply to launch the PDF and let the user decide whether to read it
on screen or to print it?