Adobe SDK

[Swi]

Has anyone ever used the Adobe SDK to pull a list of all colors used in a PDF?

I've pulled text from, pulled size from, added pages to, deleted pages, etc... from a PDF using the SDK however I have not located anything to do this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Swi

 

[Swi]

Hi,

I did quite a bit of research and found this solution to give me all kinds of information on the PDF.

magick identify -verbose C:\Swiler\Test-Output.pdf > C:\Swiler\TestColor.txt

When I run this from a command line it seems to be getting me the information I need.

Any ideas of how to best execute this in VB6 and place all information into a variable?

Thanks.

Swi

 

[Andrzejek]

Did you try Shell or ShellExecute ?

And since you can save your info into a text file, just read that file into a variable

---- Andy

"Hmm...they have the internet on computers now"--Homer Simpson

 

[Swi]

I have but no luck. It literally just opens the cmd window.

shell "cmd.exe magick identify -verbose C:\Swiler\Test-Output.pdf > C:\Swiler\Test-Output2.txt", vbNormalFocus

And yes, I'll use FSO or something else to read the text file into a variable. I was not sure if there was a way to directly put the results into a variable.

Swi

 

[Andrzejek]

Based on this post, you may just need:
[tt]
Call Shell("magick identify -verbose C:\Swiler\Test-Output.pdf > C:\Swiler\TestColor.txt")[/tt]

I do not have [tt]magick[/tt] installed so I cannot test it :-(

---- Andy

"Hmm...they have the internet on computers now"--Homer Simpson

 

[Swi]

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I tried the code above and it said file not found so I added the full path.

Call shell(Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.1.0-Q16-HDRI\magick" & Chr(34) & " identify -verbose C:\Swiler\Test-Output.pdf > C:\Swiler\TestColor.txt", vbNormalFocus)

It acts like it runs and prompt even shows the information in the cmd window but it is not output to the text file. Close but no luck yet.

Swi

 

[Swi]

Hoping someone has a more eloquent solution but this does work for me.

1. Created a batch file - "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.1.0-Q16-HDRI\magick.exe" identify -verbose C:\Swiler\Test-Output.pdf > C:\Swiler\TestColor.txt
2. Created a quick VB6 app that will call the BAT file

Dim wsh As Object
Set wsh = VBA.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim waitOnReturn As Boolean: waitOnReturn = True
Dim windowStyle As Integer: windowStyle = 1
Dim errorCode As Integer
wsh.Run "C:\Users\swiler.delp\Desktop\Test.bat", windowStyle, waitOnReturn
MsgBox "Done!", vbInformation + vbOKOnly

3. Will create the Batch file dynamically and then call it via the code

Just not sure why the original Shell code above does not seem to work. Maybe I am missing something simple.

Thanks.

Swi