Hi Gary,

try pdf995. It is a wrapper to AFPL Ghostscript, which is a free Open Source software. Just put "gswin32c.exe" into any search machine, if you want to obtain it separately.

I am using pdf995 since 5 years without any major problems on workstations running on OS winNT, win2K, XPSP1, XPSP2.

gswin32.exe itself is not that easy to controll, so the wrapper pdf995 is a very wellcomed support, which can easily be controlled via an ini-file, which can easily be manipulated. It comes with well documented "how to do its" and the people, who developed it, are very helpfull, even on weekends.

Of course you can use pdf995 for free, but it will display a sponsor page in your web browser each time you run the software. So you should buy a licence per workstation costing US-$ 9,95 (which is, where the name comes from). I think a decent charge.

I use it with applications, which include automated Word as a formating and output generating device. The output needs to be secured against manipulation via password, which can also easily be incorporated by using another tools from these guys costing - well you guested it.

One more hint: It is advisable to install pdf995 separately because after installation it will be available as a separate printer, able to generate pdf-file for all printing applications on that particular machine. Maybe you can use this an as additional selling argument for the user / buyer.

Hope it helps.

Hans.

>Hi all,
>I need to print pages of a Word doc as individual PDFs as part of a VFP app. I'm looking at PDFCreator since it's free. Two questions:
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>1. Can Word/PDFCreator do this? I create the Word doc using Word as COM server and would like to use PDFCreator as a COM server as well. BUT...
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>2. I can use it as printer and generate PDFs, but I can't instantiate PDFCreator as a COM object because I can't register it. I've tried to download the newest version, .0.9.2, in case there are some beter hints, but none of the mirrors work yet.
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>Gary