Hi Bob,

I was sure that I'd downloaded it from the UT. I've downloaded a number of possible solutions for PDF printing lately, so it's possible I found your solution via Google. Anyway, I've demoed your solution to a number of people and they're impressed. As the company that I'm doing the software for has a large user base I was wondering if you'd thought of incorporating some sort of installer for your solution, e.g automatically installing the PostScript Printer Driver and the GhostScript converter? The company are keen to use your solution and would like to know if it's possible to install the drivers when their application starts up. I'm going to investigate the possibility of automatically installing the 2 components. I just wanted to check 2 things with you first, 1. Have you already accomplished this?, and 2. If not, then would it be ok if I were to have a go at achieving this and keep you informed on how it's going and share any solution with you?

Regards,
Gavin...

>Are you talking about this link ?
>http://www.1amsoftware.com/vfpps2pdf/index.htm
>I didn't think I mentioned it here. ? Where did you find it ?
>Bob Lee
>
>p.s. thanks anyway. I love it when people use GNU Stuff.
>>Hi Bob,
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. I've had a look at your PS2PDF download. Excellent product !!! It does exactly what I want.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Gavin...
>>
>>>Its my understanding that Adobe specifically restricts this in their EULA.
>>>There are server products which are designed to work as a 'server'
>>>like active pdf at
>>>
>>>http://www.activepdf.com/en/start.asp
>>>and depending on your experience, you could put ghostscript on the 'server' either linux / unix or Nt/2000 and have it work to convert your vfp .ps files to pdf files. If you wanted to ghostscript, you could install the printer driver and a port monitor called redmon which basically executes the program ps2pdf when some print application requests a print.
>>>Other soltuions for server based pdf are avail at www.pdfzone.com
>>>The concept is really simple, have vfp create a .ps file using any print driver which creates a .ps file (hp lj5 for example) then use a 'converter' which converts your .ps file to a pdf file. This can be done in one step, using just the printer driver, or some sort of directory watching program, or manually.
>>>
>>>Bob Lee
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently working on an LAN application ( not web ) that requires an option to output VFP6.0 reports to PDF. I've done this previously using Rick Strahl's WWPDF classes and Adobe Acrobat Distiller installed on the Client. The application I'm currently working on requires that Distiller ( or any other PDF generator ) resides on the server and that all report output created on the client is generated as PDF on the server. My previous experience with creating PDF with VFP6.0 has been purely on the client. Has anyone here had experience with creating PDF reports on the server from VFP reports generated on a client? Any advice would be most helpful.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Gavin...