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Modify Distiller Watched folder Help

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2007-09-27 10:42:14
rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84

I'm looking for a way to modify a Distiller watched folder so I can have files dropped into the "In" folder delivered the finished PDF to a folder of my choice instead of the default created "Out" folder. In this case the PDF needs to be delivered directly to a printer's hot folder.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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2007-09-27 13:47:53
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You can not do that with Acrobat or Distiller, You wil need to write an OS system script or find a 3rd aprty workflow product that can watch a given folder and move any file placed there to another folder.

George Kaiser

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2007-09-28 07:30:47
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rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
I was thinking that I probably couldn't alter Acrobat's behavior, but needed to check. I'm hoping someone else is using a similar workflow.

I'm still wondering if anyone has a good OS script or Software recommendations which aren't overly complex for this seemingly simple operation. I do know http://www.gradual.com has SW which will do this, and much more, but the problem is I don't need 90% of what the SW is built for and hesitate to drop $3200 plus for this one task.
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