What is a PDF file?

Also, Mark, what are you trying to accomplish?

Joe

>>>>Hello !!
>>>>
>>>>Is there such a thing ...
>>>>a Word *.doc to *.PCX converter
>>>
>>>Mark,
>>> How about making the file a PDF format file?? That would make it readable for most platforms, since there are readers for DOS, Windows 3.1, Win 95/NT, Mac, Unix..
>>>
>>>Thanx!
>>>
>>>Tony Miller
>>>Vancouver, Wa
>>That sounds perfect but how do I go by having a practical converter
>>doing it at the same moment that "X" particular document is being sent to
>>a HP laser a.eg. plus with some DBF. text merge routine???
>>
>>consider that I may have about 7 different documents going and the page
>>eject will only occurr whenever the text merge is completed for that particular
>>record..
>If you are doing this thru using a report form, then all you do (in Win 95, Mac usage is , switch the print driver to the PDF print driver AFTER you send the print job to the printer, and print out a PDF file to whatever name you name it programaticly.
>
>I have done this even in FP 2.x DOS, and it worked pretty well, just an added step of building a PostScript print file, then copying it over for a PDF building routine to build the PDF file from the PS file..
>
>Thanx,
>
>Tony Miller
>Vancouver, Wa