Hi All,
Let me first explain the situation.
I am creating a remote ftp print facility where people place pdf's on my ftp server. I then have a Perl script which moves the pdf's to a folder. At this point Adobe Acrobat needs to run a batch process based print action on the file that has just been moved. When it has been printed, the file gets moved to another folder where it will stay for 3 days until it gets deleted by another Perl script.
My question is this: How can I get Acrobat to kick off the batch process unattended? Can I make it work like distiller does with a watched folder? Or can I use some third party software to call the batch process (executable?) like crontab does in Unix? I currently have Windows Scheduler for that purpose.
I have seen some other forum questions which have pointed to the batch files that hold the specific commands for each batch sequence. They are .sequ files. I can find them on my system and when opened they look like small javascripts. Can these be run independently from Acrobat by my scheduler? I doubt it!
Any ideas will be gratefully considered!
Cheers
Jimbo
Let me first explain the situation.
I am creating a remote ftp print facility where people place pdf's on my ftp server. I then have a Perl script which moves the pdf's to a folder. At this point Adobe Acrobat needs to run a batch process based print action on the file that has just been moved. When it has been printed, the file gets moved to another folder where it will stay for 3 days until it gets deleted by another Perl script.
My question is this: How can I get Acrobat to kick off the batch process unattended? Can I make it work like distiller does with a watched folder? Or can I use some third party software to call the batch process (executable?) like crontab does in Unix? I currently have Windows Scheduler for that purpose.
I have seen some other forum questions which have pointed to the batch files that hold the specific commands for each batch sequence. They are .sequ files. I can find them on my system and when opened they look like small javascripts. Can these be run independently from Acrobat by my scheduler? I doubt it!
Any ideas will be gratefully considered!
Cheers
Jimbo