VB program to plot to pdf

[Wayne]

I am trying to write a program in Visual Basic that will create a pdf
of all dwg files in a folder. The API call "PlotToFile" works just
fine if I create a dwf file, but does not work with pdf. It creates
the pdf file, but it will not open in Adobe. I have tried two
different shareware pdf writer software packages, cutePDF and deskPDF,
and neither one work. Is what I am doing possible or am I doing
something wrong. As a side note, I can manually create the pdf files
with same pdf plotter I configured with the plotter manager.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Wayne Matus

[Mr. B]

With Deft Fingers, Wayne <wlmatus@swbell.net> wrote:
I am trying to write a program in Visual Basic that will create a pdfof all dwg files in a folder. The API call "PlotToFile" works justfine if I create a dwf file, but does not work with pdf. It createsthe pdf file, but it will not open in Adobe. I have tried two

What I did was write a VB.net script writting application... you can plot all
selected DWG files to any comany printer, OCE Reprodesk... and PDF. I used
PDF995. So as far as the script file is concerned... just another printer.

And I have it so it re-opens any SCR file to modify all the many various
settings... I even went overboard and added in a feature to create up to 15
Layouts per selected file... modify their names and delete them.. but I
digress...

Simple and straight forward. Nothing fancy needed or necessary... So forget
the API calls, etc and just write a plain jane vanilla flavour SCR file
(text).

Regards,

Bruce