I'd like to know whether anyone knows of a way to exit an application
after it's finished printing in the background (rather than immediately as
it would kill the print spooling for large docs).

    I've tried methods such as looping and checking til it finishes (which
works) but takes up 100% CPU utilization and causes a 5 page doc. which
normally takes 5 secs to spool to take forever instead.

    Bascially, I'm trying to write a script which would automatically open a
doc, print then exit the program afterwards. The exiting after it's printing
is the headache as I haven't found much in terms of 'wait or delays' in wsh
or jscript.

    If any one knows of a solution, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for your help.

Sam Tran

     I'd like to know whether anyone knows of a way to exit an application
after it's finished printing in the background (rather than immediately as
it would kill the print spooling for large docs).

    I've tried methods such as looping and checking til it finishes (which
works) but takes up 100% CPU utilization and causes a 5 page doc. which
normally takes 5 secs to spool to take forever instead.

    Bascially, I'm trying to write a script which would automatically open a
doc, print then exit the program afterwards. The exiting after it's printing
is the headache as I haven't found much in terms of 'wait or delays' in wsh
or jscript.

    If any one knows of a solution, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for your help.

Sam Tran

Set app = Wscript.CreateObject("Word.Application")
' app.Visible = true
app.Documents.Open("D:\TEMP\t\test.doc")
app.Options.PrintBackground = False
app.ActiveDocument.PrintOut

Regards,
Captain Cerebrum
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    I just tried the code you gave me and it works like a miracle!! Thanks
for your help.
Originally I had tried it another way where I'd pause the script for x
seconds and check every
x seconds to see whether background printing's done or not. But that didn't
work very smoothly.

This way's much better.

Thanks again.

Sam Tran