Saving to Adobe PDF (without a pop-up?)

[holleytx]

Hi, I am using the Report generation VIs to create a MSWord document with the test data.  Aftwards I want to copy the file and save it as a PDF.

I am doing this by using the new report.vi (with my word document as input) and wiring that VI to the Print Report.vi (with Adobe PDF) as my printer.

The issue is that I get a pop-up box asking me the name/location for the PDF file.  I want to somehow modify this code so the system will not give a popup but simply save the file with a given name.

Can I modify this VI to do that? 

Thanks for you input

[MikeS81]

Hi holleytx,

depending in the PDF Printer, you can change the settings. With the PDFCreator it is possible to set it to autosave, then it prints your document to a file without a dialog.

Hope it helps.

Mike

[holleytx]

Thank you for the idea, I will look into that;

I have not yet told the program the name/location of the PDF file so I assume this information must be input somewhere.  The file name will actually be the exact same as the word file with a different extension.  The directory location will differ by one folder name...

[holleytx]

Just in case some one else is going through this.  After many methods, I finally decided to simply goto my computer settings: Printers and Faxes;  Right click on the Adobe Printer and select Printing Preferences;  That allows you to pick a default file location for storing your file without the popup.  In my case every system that runs this program will have to do this step now. 

Once the Adobe Print has created the file,  I simply move the file its intended destination.