>thanks for borislav for your kind advice.
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>i would like to take this opportunity to ask you that what i'm trying to achieve is to automatically convert a ms word doc that has been generated from within my vfp6.0 application to a pdf file using com/dcom/ole.
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>is the above possible or has the conversion from ms word to pdf to be done manually only.
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>with sincere thanks once again

How you create Word document?
Can you write exact the same report? If you can you can use 3th party software line XFRX, FRX2ANY to converrt the output directly to Word, Excel, PDF or I don't know how many options they have now :o)))