GetPDFFileName

The GetPDFFileName method retrieves the name of the last generated PDF file.

HRESULT GetPDFFileName(

[in] BOOL p_bPrintStarted,

[out, string] LPWSTR* p_pwsFileName

);

Parameters:

p_bPrintStarted

[in] flag, what file name to retrieve. See Remarks.

p_pwsFileName

[out] pointer to a pointer to a null terminated Unicode string that will contain the file name. 

On success this value must be freed by the caller with CoTaskMemFree.

Return values:

S_OK on success or COM error code

NV_NOT_INITIALIZED - Initialize was not called

Remarks:

Because the novaPDF printer works with the printer spooler queue, the documents sent to the printer are added to the queue. If there are already some other documents in the queue, the current document is not processed until the previous ones are finished.

There are two PDF file names you can find out, depending on the value of the p_bPrintStarted flag:

This information is available only on the computer that starts the print job, if the PDF file is saved local and not on the network.