'This module contains all the necessary API functions and constants API Viewer helped me found the correct declaration syntax for all API functions. First of all, the code below contains all the necessary API functions and constants that are used in the various subs of this project. API Viewer is a utility that helps you write the API declarations, by providing the correct syntax of each function.ġ.

Spy++ is a utility that gives you a graphical view of the system’s processes, threads, windows, and window messages.However, I should mention that without the following tools it would be impossible to finish this project: The above list describes more or less the sequence of actions that I followed in order to fulfil this task. – API functions (FindWindow and PostMessage) for finding the opened PDF document and closing it. – A custom WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) function in order to determine if the printer has finished printing. – API functions (FindWindow, SetForegroundWindow andFindWindowEx) in order to “find” the print window of Internet Explorer and its “child” windows. Print the web page as PDF to a specified file path using Adobe Professional.Open a web page in Internet Explorer and wait until is fully loaded.Check if a file name contains special/illegal characters.Set the default computer’s printer to your desired printer (using Windows Script Host Object Model Library).

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There are multiple lines of VBA code in order to: In the code below I used a lot of different techniques and methods which I will try to describe as detailed as possible in case someone needs to use a part only of the code. My initial reaction was yes, why not? But when I started writing the VBA code I couldn’t imagine that it will take me so much time to finish this project. Around 10 days ago, a blog reader (Sangeetha) asked me if is possible to convert HTML files (web pages) to PDF files using VBA. The previous sentence describes exactly what happened to me the previous days. Sometimes a task that you consider as “simple” tends to be so demanding that at the end you blame yourself for your initial assumption.

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