.NET issue

[russgreen]

I'm trying to use Bullzip and control the settings from my app.

Its an addin at that automates print jobs from some software. The printing aspect is fine. What I do is loop through selectred of sheets to print and send them 1 at a time to various outputs. One of which is PDF using Bullzip.

For Each sheet As ViewSheet In sheets
ExportPDF(sbFile & ".pdf", thisdoc, sheet)
End For

Private Sub ExportPDF(ByVal ExportFileName As String, ByRef thisdoc As Document, ByRef sheet As ViewSheet)
Dim pdfSettings As PdfSettings = New PdfSettings()
pdfSettings.PrinterName = PDFPRINTERNAME
pdfSettings.SetValue("Output", sFullPath)
pdfSettings.SetValue("ShowPDF", "yes")
pdfSettings.SetValue("ShowSettings", "never")
pdfSettings.SetValue("ShowSaveAS", "never")
pdfSettings.SetValue("ShowProgress", "no")
pdfSettings.SetValue("ShowProgressFinished", "no")
pdfSettings.SetValue("ConfirmOverwrite", "no")
pdfSettings.WriteSettings(PdfSettingsFileType.RunOnce)

'DO MY PRINT
End Sub

This works 100% of the time on the first sheet. After that its very random but sometimes its OK others the Bullzip save as dialog pops up which defeats the purpose of automation.

Help!

[jr]

Hi,

You may be in a situation where you overwrite an existing runonce.ini before it is picked up by the printer.

Take a look at this:
http://www.biopdf.com/guide/examples/batch_printing/

Regards,
Jacob

[russgreen]

Thanks.


Added this after my print method and a quick test seems to have fixed it

Do While My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(pdfSettings.GetSettingsFilePath(True).ToString)
'check the runonce file has been removed before progressing.
Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
Loop