Retrieve full path of PDF document

[albertmaathuis]

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to retrieve the name and the full path of an adobe PDF document which is actually opened.

_Wingettitle() gives me the full name (test.pdf), but i would like to know what the location (C:\documents\) of the document is.

Adobe 10 doen't display it in the windowtitle, but it is there in te properties tab (file-properties-location)

I searched the forums, but I can only find a way to retrieve the path of the Adobe application(and that is not what I'm looking for)

Any ideas?

[Melba23]

albertmaathuis,

Do you not have a path to open the PDF file in the first place?

M23

[albertmaathuis]

Yes and No,

Of course I have opened the PDF docs in the first place, but i open e.g 10 PDF's from differt locations.

After that I am going to manipulate one ore more PDF's (add other PDF or overlay with watermark and so on)

For saving the document in the right place I would like to know its first name and location, verify if its the right one and then save it with a different name on the same location.

[guinness]

Maybe _PathSplit?

_PathSplit

[albertmaathuis]

_Pathsplit would be nice if I knew the path.

[Melba23]

albertmaathuis,

But you have just told us that you do!

Of course I have opened the PDF docs in the first place, but i open e.g 10 PDF's from differt locations

So save those locations in an array which you can then access later:

For saving the document in the right place I would like to know its first name and location

You pull the location of that first PDF from the array and use _PathSplit to extract the data.

M23

[jdelaney]

File menu, properties (ctrl d, or WinMenuSelectItem):

Location.

Edited February 15, 2013 by jdelaney

[albertmaathuis]

I'm sorry perhaps I didn't explain it clearly.

I open the PDF e.g by double clicing on the document, or I have made the pdf from word or excel by saving it to a PDF printer.

So the PDF's are opened and on the desktop. Then I start my program, and I attach to lets say PDF document number3

The program sets an overlay (e.g. a logo) on PDF document3 and then saves it on the original location (which i do not know) under a differnt name.

If the PDF's wher openend from within autoit, then there would be no problem.

[albertmaathuis]

Hello Jdelaney,

Thats correct, i can see the location is there, but how can I get it into a variable?

[jdelaney]

Use the autoit info tool. I believe that window should be stagnant, so you can get the control's handle by instance (use the controlNN, examples are present).

Help file for: ControlGetHandle, and ControlGetText

[albertmaathuis]

I tried it on my PDF document, but it only gives me the name of the document, not the location.

It also gives me the handle of the window and the class, and two handles of controls, but ther is nothing to see as location

[jdelaney]

you have to show us what you are working with (your script: only the part about manipulating the properties window), so we can help.

Edited February 15, 2013 by jdelaney

[albertmaathuis]

Ok, I will post it tomorrow.

[albertmaathuis]

Here is part of the script I'm working on.

Open a PDF document and a Word document, than run the script (no need to make an executable, just run it in the scite editor)

Running the script will show from the PDF document only the name and from the word document the path name

I realize that the PDF part is different from the word part, but that is the reason for this post.

;Open a PDF document by double click or start adobe reader and open a PDF document

;Running this script will only show the title (=name) of then PDF document

$handle = WinGetHandle("test.pdf", "")

msgbox(0,"handle=",$handle)

$test = WinGetTitle($handle)

msgbox(0,"windowtitle=",$test)

;this is the way it works with Microsoft Word

;Open a word document and run the script

$oWord = ObjGet("","Word.Application")

$oDocs = $oWord.Documents

$wordaanwezig=0

For $o In $oDocs

msgbox(0,"Pathname=",$o.Path)

msgbox(0,"Fullname=",$o.FullName)

Next

[jdelaney]

Not sure what your question is...if you can't find the pdf handle, use something like this (loop through the array, and grab the handle you need)

#include <Array.au3>
$aPDF = WinList("[Class:AcrobatSDIWindow]")
_ArrayDisplay($aPDF)

Edited February 15, 2013 by jdelaney

[albertmaathuis]

Tried, but it only gives me the handle of the active PDF document (with the name) and the handle of adobe reader.

Not the filepath, and with the handles I cann't find the path of the active document.

I was hoping there would be something simular as in the word environment:

Something like:

$oPDF = ObjGet("","[Class:AcrobatSDIWindow]")

$oPDFs = $oPDF.Documents

For $o In $oPDFs

msgbox(0,"Pathname=",$o.Path)

msgbox(0,"Fullname=",$o.FullName)

Next

But this gives me an error on "documents" ( Variable must be of type object)

Perhaps the line $oPDF.Documents is not document, but something else...?

Searching the internet I found something which doesn't make me happy.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1161198#1161198

So I think it is not possible to extract the path in a simple way.

[Melba23]

albertmaathuis,

Just look at the list of recently opened files in the Registry. This code works for my Acrobat Reader - just substitute the relevant location for your Adobe version:

; Set the location
Local $sReg = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles"
; Extract the recent file keys
For $i = 1 To 100
    Local $sKey = RegEnumKey($sReg, $i)
    If @error <> 0 Then
        ; No more keys
        ExitLoop
    Else
        ; Read the key - it is stored in binary so convert it
        Local $sVal = BinaryToString(RegRead($sReg & "\" & $sKey, "tDIText"))
        MsgBox(4096, $i, $sVal)
    EndIf
Next

That should get you what you need.

M23

[albertmaathuis]

Hi M23,

That works indeed, it gives me the path and the filename.

Thanks a lot, now I can go on with my program.

[Melba23]

albertmaathuis,

Glad I could help.

M23