Saving multiple e-mails to pdf with PDFMAKER - vba

Question

I'm brand spanking new to VBA. But I've programmed a bit in SAS, just a bit in Assembler (mainframe and PC), Word Perfect (macros), a bit in Java, HTML, other stuff. What I do is, when I have a problem and I think I can program it, I look for code on the internet and adjust it to fit my needs. I have read a little bit of VBA programming. What I'm trying to do is make a macro to save a bunch of Outlook e-mail messages with PDFMAKER. I've come up with the below, so far. When I step the program, pmkr2 gets assigned type "ObjectPDFMaker" and stng gets assigned type "ISettings". So far, so good. Then I try to set stng and can't do it. I get the error "Method or data member not found." If I get rid of Set it highlights .ISettings and I get the same error. I go into F2 and the AdobePDFMakerforOffice library is there, and the class ISettings is there, but I can't seem to set stng. I'm wa-a-a-ay frustrated. Please help.
Sub ConvertToPDFWithLinks()
Dim pmkr2 As Object
Set pmkr2 = Application.COMAddIns.Item(6).Object ' Assign object reference.
Dim pdfname As String
pdfname = "C:\stuff\stuff\tester.pdf"
Dim stng As AdobePDFMakerForOffice.ISettings
Set stng = AdobePDFMakerForOffice.ISettings
stng.AddBookmarks = True
stng.AddLinks = True
stng.AddTags = True
stng.ConvertAllPages = True
stng.CreateFootnoteLinks = True
stng.CreateXrefLinks = True
stng.OutputPDFFileName = pdfname
stng.PromptForPDFFilename = False
stng.ShouldShowProgressDialog = True
stng.ViewPDFFile = False
pmkr.GetCurrentConversionSettings stng
pmkr2.CreatePDFEx stng, 0
Set pmkr2 = Nothing ' Discontinue association.
End Sub

Answer 1

I updated your code a little. See if this has any affect:
Sub ConvertToPDFWithLinks()
Dim pmkr2 As AdobePDFMakerForOffice.PDFMaker
'Set pmkr2 = Application.COMAddIns.Item(6).Object ' Assign object reference.
Set pmkr2 = Nothing
For Each a In Application.COMAddIns
If InStr(UCase(a.Description), "PDFMAKER") > 0 Then
Set pmkr2 = a.Object
Exit For
End If
Next
If pmkr2 Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Cannot Find PDFMaker add-in", vbOKOnly, ""
Exit Sub
End If
Dim pdfname As String
pdfname = "C:\stuff\stuff\tester.pdf"
Dim stng As AdobePDFMakerForOffice.ISettings
pmkr2.GetCurrentConversionSettings stng
stng.AddBookmarks = True
stng.AddLinks = True
stng.AddTags = True
stng.ConvertAllPages = True
stng.CreateFootnoteLinks = True
stng.CreateXrefLinks = True
stng.OutputPDFFileName = pdfname
stng.PromptForPDFFilename = False
stng.ShouldShowProgressDialog = True
stng.ViewPDFFile = False
pmkr2.CreatePDFEx stng, 0
Set pmkr2 = Nothing ' Discontinue association.
End Sub
The main changes were in how the addin is obtained and in how stng is created.