Multipage PDFs causing filename issue

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   I'm trying to thumbnail a directory of PDFs - using VBA and iSed - utilising the RenerDocumentToFile command.
It seems on multipage PDFs that the resultant file name always has a 1 appended (I'm specifying first page only) and I don't want that as the filenames need to match exactly the originals.
Please help!!

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chilluk Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 20 Jul 06 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote chilluk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Multipage PDFs causing filename issue Posted: 30 Aug 06 at 6:10AM
	I'm trying to thumbnail a directory of PDFs - using VBA and iSed - utilising the RenerDocumentToFile command. It seems on multipage PDFs that the resultant file name always has a 1 appended (I'm specifying first page only) and I don't want that as the filenames need to match exactly the originals. Please help!!

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 06 at 8:10AM
	Hi chilluk! How should this work? Each page of the document will be converted to an image - so the names can't be the same. If so - the result will be only the last page as an image - the other pages will be lost. If this is not okay for you you can work with copy, delete, kill, rename, ... after the function call. Best regards, Ingo Edited by Ingo

chilluk Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 20 Jul 06 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote chilluk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 06 at 8:13AM
	I am specifying in the code that I only want to convert a single page - so ideally I'd want it to just have the name I specify without the added on 1. Can I detect multiple pages first and then I would know which ones need renaming? Thanks for your reply.

chilluk Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 20 Jul 06 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote chilluk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 06 at 8:20AM
	Ah - no worries - maybe it names all with the suffix of 1 - I'll just rename them all!!

hbarclay Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 29 Oct 05 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 39	Post Options Post Reply Quote hbarclay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 06 at 11:19AM
	The suffix should be whatever the page number is, and if you don't want it to be the suffix, you can insert a '%p' into the file name and the page number will replace the %p. If you were using Delphi you could just call RenderPageToStream and then save the stream to a file, using VBA you might try RenderPageToString and then save the resulting string to a file. That way you would have complete control over the file name. I haven't tried either of these, but the functions look like they should work.