Actually Word will open most HTML documents and use them as is. If you're doing HTML to PDF it actually works pretty well for that as long as you stay with relatively straight forward HTML that fits Words base styles. FWIW, I do this with Help Builder and it works pretty well.

+++ Rick ---

>Have you ever look at the HTML that Word creates? Using Word to create HTML is not a good idea.
>
>>If you are creating the html file in MSWord, i would think that you could use MSWord's "save as PDF" feature (which i believe was added in Word2010, there are downloads for earlier versions).
>>
>>

>>#define wdDoNotSaveChanges  0
>>#define wdExportFormatPDF 17
>>#Define wdAlertsNone    0
>>
>>llAttachPDF = .t.
>>TRY
>>	WordObj = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>>	WordObj.Application.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
>>	WordObj.documents.open("&lcPassedInDoc")
>>	WordObj.visible = .f.
>>	
>>	*--- lOpenPDF: is set to true or false.  Controls whether PDF is displayed.
>>	*---
>>	WordObj.ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat("&lcPDFname", 17, lOpenPDF)
>>

>>
>>
>>>i vae a prg which creates an html document which I need as a pdf so I can email it to someone with all the photos in place
>>>I use cutepdf but that propmts for a file name
>>>
>>>is there a programatic way to do this? this is what I do at the bottom of the prg and it requires manual printing, adding afilename and then opening the pdf and emailing...
>>>I would like to do this fully automated
>>>possible??? How???
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>lcWordFname = FULLPATH([TownDossier_]+lcTownName+[_]+CHRTRAN(TRANSFORM(DATETIME()),[\/: ],[])+[.htm]) 
>>>STRTOFILE(lcHTML , lcWordFname )
>>>
>>>
>>>Local oWord as word.application
>>>oWord=Createobject("word.application")	&& Create word object
>>>oWOrd.Visible = .t.
>>>With oWord
>>>  .documents.open(lcWordFname)  && New file or open a template
>>>	
>>>ENDWITH 
>>>oWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(lcWordFname)
>>>oWord.Activate()
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>Peter