I've had the same experience - PDFs created by ghostscript are considerably smaller than those created using distiller, and they're created a bit faster, too. I'm still using gs 5.5 - rock solid and fast, so I haven't bothered upgrading to 7.5. Dunno about later versions.

Mark

>Andrus
>I have been working with this code - and the one I wrote over this past weekend (using the exe) and have created hundreds of PDF reports using Ghostscript.
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