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Hello Adobe Community,
I am hoping to get some help with a work problem I recently "inherited"... The company I am working for has rendered my services to help them get their information system application migrated from Windows XP machines to Windows 10 machines. The core components of the program were developed in Visual Basic 6, Crystal Reports 8, and Adobe Acrobat 5. I already know 99% of peoples answers are along the lines of "You need to upgrade" or "Why are you using that?!". For those people, the answer is simply because my immediate need is to use what I was given, and the eventual plan is to migrate everything over to newer versions of these core components.
I have made some code adjustments already and found some other updated drivers for other dependencies, and so far through initial testing, it seems the application is performing as expected.
Unfortunately, yesterday, I hit a major snag where the application is trying to print to the "Adobe PDFWriter" printer, which doesn't seem to be installed on Windows 10, even though I installed Adobe Acrobat 5.0, as administrator, with the "Include PDFWriter files" option checked during install.
The code that is executing is doing the following:
The end result, what I need to replicate, and what I need the communities help with is that Crystal Reports:
I have tried using Microsofts built-in Print to PDF, and that works, BUT it prompts the user to save the file, and I see no way to programmatically change that from VB6.
I would imagine newer versions of Adobe Acrobat ARE NOT compatible with Visual Basic 6, additionally, the licenses for Adobe Acrobat are kind of pricey when the ONLY functionality I need is the ability to programmatically print to PDF.
Any useful comments, suggestions, resolutions will be very much appreciated!
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MSFT changed how printer drivers work in Windows 7, so that older drivers (such as that one that is over 15 years old now!) won’t work.
You need to upgrade – no other choice.
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Ok, what version of Acrobat is compatible with Visual Basic 6, works with windows 10, and is available for purchase?
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I don’t know about compatible – but there are no versions for which we support that combination. I don’t believe that MSFT supports VB6 on Windows 10 either.
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This sounds very like it might be a server process. If so, Acrobat is not licensed for this and you’d need the enterprise level LiveCycle PDF Generator instead, which is exponentially more expensive.