>I have used Amyuni's product to create pdfs from Word doc files from within VFP i.e. vfp is driving Word. Amyuni requires licensing of a developer version and it indeed does work. It took a fair bit to get working - I could send you some code.
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>There may be other products out there easier to work with so hopefully a few others jump in.
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>Albert
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>>Can anyone recommend a product or process that programmatically converts an existing DOC or DOCX file to a PDF document... for use in both a standalone and networked enviroment?

Thanks Albert. Can you post a bit of code so i can see how the DOC/X is converted to PDF? I see they have a dev version with a tolerable price. Does it involve installing a printer driver on the fly during the conversion... and having to deal with windows rights issues as a result?