html to PDF using VBS

Question

I need a .VBS example of how to read in an html file into Acrobat DC and then save the file as a PDF.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Here is the code me and another guy came up with. It works entirely in the background so you won't see an Acrobat icon while it is converting the html file into a pdf. I hope you like it.

Option Explicit

Dim AcroApp
Dim objAVDoc
Dim objPDDoc

Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
AcroApp.Hide

Set objAVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
'Input file path
objAVDoc.Open "C:\Temp\Do_Loop_Example.html", ""

Set objPDDoc = objAVDoc.GetPDDoc
'Output file path
objPDDoc.Save 1, "C:\Temp\Do_Loop_Example.pdf" 'Explicit save.

objPDDoc.Close
objAVDoc.Close -1 'Close without saving -- an explicit save was already invoked.

Set objPDDoc = Nothing
Set objAVDoc = Nothing

AcroApp.Exit
Set AcroApp = Nothing

Anonymous · Answer

Here is the code I came up with but it does not automatically save the pdf file. And the file Junk.Pdf is really junk but without it sometimes I get an error the file is already open. When it closes it does prompt me to save the file to a path of my choosing. It works but it is not anywhere close to what I want. What I want is for it to save the pdf file with the same name as the html file without me having to do anything other than run the code. Saving the PDF file in the same path as the html file would be great.

Dim AcroApp

Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")

Set objPDDocNew = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")

objPDDocNew.Create()

Set objPDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")

objPDDoc.Open "C:\Temp\Do_Loop_Example.html", ""

objPDDocNew.Save 1, "C:\Temp\Junk.pdf"

objPDDoc.Close 0

AcroApp.Exit

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