>I'm not sure I have a choice here. I recall I first create a temp text file, then use this file to convert to PDF, not directly from a text string. Lots of extra steps... I questioned today the validity of storing memo as PDF and got these answers:
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>1) We store memo as PDF because we're going to purge Stage tables ~ each six months and we don't want to keep them in our main tables to save space
>2) We're using PDF because lots of other things are also stored as PDF...
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>So, I guess there are not much chances of speeding this particular piece of code...

Maybe you should consider some other tool for PDF creation? I have a process that monthly converts over 1000 pages of FoxPro DOS reports in couple minutes using XFRX PDF library.

13:44:55     Total # of pages to convert 1194
...
13:46:11       Total # of Files: 308
13:46:15     Done.