To run Adobe on a server you must have a terminal server session (or remote desktop) open under an ADMIN account (!). On a server this is not what you want because the moment you reboot the server, the session is gone and Adobe will stop functioning. This feature is documented by Adobe.

You can go to ghostscript.com for the licences. We rely heavily on GS and we switched because of the ´session´ problem with Adobe.
You cannot run a report in a DLL and therefor you must compile it as an EXE. There are other options but you will need to redesign parts of your program.
You could more your report to an exe, compile the rest as a dll. Register the DLL with COM+ and the EXE with Dcomcnfg. Not ideal but it should work.

Regards,

Ron


>I know this has been discussed 1 mil times before... but I still can't get it right.
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>I basically have a COM object running on a Win2K server that runs a report to Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter. Somehow I'm missing something in setup or permissions... or I don't know... because running in Vfox env. I can do it...
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>Once compiled and called from FOXISAPI... it just beeps and gets stuck there forever.
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>I did set configuration as "interactive user" in DCOMCNFG and the COM object is an EXE...
>please help!
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>BTW on another note I keep reading about Ghostscript etc... however for commercial use is not free, any ideea what's the cost of the license?