how do i call acrobat from a commandline

[jørgenw81693771]

I have searched the net for hours and I see that I am not alone.

I want to run Acrobat pro in order to convert an html file to PDF.

I works fine if I do it manually - but I want to call the process from another machine and retrieve the resulting file.

I am looking for something like: acrobat.exe /P [Inputfilepath] [outputfilepath]

I have also created an "Action" that prints a file stored in a folder. It works fine. Can I call that Action form "outside" or ???

[try67]

Generally speaking, Acrobat is not meant to be used as a command-line tool. Basically all you can do from the command line is to open a file and/or print it. That's it.

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Also, a note: what you describe sounds very like "using Acrobat as a server". This is strictly forbidden by the EULA, according to Adobe. Look into the LiveCycle PDF Generator product, an enterprise-level solution with Java automation.

[Loic_Aigon1]

Hi

Test Screen Name is right about EULA. But if you are the licence owner or if the users are members of your company and own themselves a licence, there isn't restrictions to automate Acrobat.

To get back at your original issue. You could either use Applescript on Mac or VB possibly on Windows( to be confirmed for the latter) to drive Acrobat.

I don't know any command line that would drive Acrobat but some tools can be used such as Enfocus Switch that can drive Acrobat thanks to a specific connector.

Once that said, you can also consider Callas PDFChip which can turn HTML into prepress standards PDFs.

HTH

Loic

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