>>>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?
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>I use TxTextControl (www.textcontrol.com) allow you to provide editing for RTF/DOC/DOCX and you can mail merge, print, save as PDF etc.
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>Gary.

Thanks Gary. Looks interesting. Gotta love how the standard edition does not support DOCX nor hyperlinks. I'm curious about how you are using the control. Are you keeping letters in DOC files while using the control to import the DOCs for editing and for 'exporting' to PDF'? Does this allow you to avoid having MSWord installed on the workstation(s)... bypassing Word automation? Are you using the content for html emails?