Re: Chemstation and pdf printing

Actually, I'm testing that and win2pdf. They both have the same
feature, problem that i have with both is that they will save
everything to the same directory. I need to constantly change the path
where the file is being saved to each time Chemstation kicks out a
report.

for instance

first time around the report will be printed to:
d:\hpchem\1\data\501119dip\003-0501.D\003-0501.pdf

The next report will be printed to:
d:\hpchem\1\data\501119dip\003-0504.D\003-0504.pdf

The third report will be printed to:
d:\hpchem\1\data\501119dip\003-0505.D\003-0505.pdf

and so on.

Of course with Chemstation the sequence folder (501119dip) is created
at the start of the sequence run
and the data directory (003-0504.D) is created just before injection.
So by the time the report is ready to kick off the
path will already exist. I'm looking for a way to grab the complete
path and pass that information to the appropriate registry entry in
pdf995 or win2pdf for example so that I can eliminate the dialog box of
course, and keep the reports (pdf files) in the same directory as the
data resides for that sample.

I see that the Agilent Macro can grab file name and path name (not sure
how this part works), but I do not believe their macro
can write into the registry...hopefully I'm wrong. This is the only
way I can see for now how I can get this 'dynamic' pdf printing
working. My restraints are
tight as Labware is also wanting the pdf residing in the same folder as
the sample data for each sample analysed.

If someone created this with a script somehow or 3rd party product I'ld
like to talk...I'm hoping we're not the only company who's trying to
accomplish this
feat :)

Cheers!
Robert.

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