Feature Request - CenoPDF SERVER version

[marc_scheuner]

Folks,

CenoPDF is great for turning Word documents into fillable PDF forms -
but the whole process takes quite a long time - plus we normally have
to do all our forms in at least 3 or 4 languages...... that ties up
**a lot** of time! :-(

My idea was: is there any hope that there might be a CenoPDF SERVER
version, that would work a bit like a source code build server? I drop
a bunch of .DOC or .DOCX files into a \\myserver\input directory, and
CenoPDF Server picks those up, converts them to PDF forms, and then
spits them out into a \\myserver\output folder?

That way, as a developer, I could make my changes, drop the files into
a bin, and not have to sit around and stare at my workstation and Word
to convert each and every single one of the documents......

Something like that would be GREATLY appreciated !

Cheers!
Marc

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Marc Scheuner May The
Source Be With You!
Berne, Switzerland
mscheuner -at- gmail.com

[CenoPDF Support]

Thanks Marc for the great idea.

We actually are thinking about an alternative way that might be more
flexable. Basically we can expose an Export() function from the add-
in. This function call be called from VBA, so that you can write your
own VBA code to monitor the queue and load the document and then call
our function to create PDF.

What do you think?

Thanks

-- CenoPDF Support

[CenoPDF Support]

Hello Marc,

We have made some changes and implemented a function called Export()
from our add-in. You can download it here:
http://www.lystech.com/t/CenoPDFInstall2.exe
All changes here will also be available in future versions.

With this build, you can call our add-in from your VBA code in Word.
Here are some sample code:
***********************
Dim errorMessage As String
Dim addinObject As Object

Set addinObject = Application.COMAddIns("OffbatShim.Connect").Object
errorMessage = addinObject.Export("c:\temp\abcd.pdf", &H7036E)

MsgBox errorMessage
***********************

The second parameter of the Export() function is the window handle of
the Word main window. Let me know if you need some help to get that.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

-- CenoPDF Support

[Ronald C. Duke]

From The Desk Of:            Ronald C. Duke

Dear CenoPDF Support: I don't use a server, so should I still download this update? Regards, ron -------Original Message-------

Regards,   ron

[CenoPDF Support]

This release is currently not official yet. But it will be soon.
Unless you want to use the Export() to do the programming yourself,
you don't have to download it.