Sebastian,

I create pdf's as well from a VFP7-comserver and I do the following:
- create a postscript file when printing your report (select a postscript
printer and save the file, it should be a postscipt file)
- do the following;
loDistiller = NEWOBJECT("PdfDistiller.pdfdistiller.1") && I use Distiller
to create the pdf-file
IF FILE(cpsfilename)
lodistiller.filetopdf(cpsfilename, cpdffilename, '')
* delete the input ps-file!
DELETE FILE (cpsfilename)
ENDIF
This converts a postscript file to a pdf-file. I do this in a VFP-com object running on a W2K-server with Adobe Acrobat Distiller installed and it works great with VFP-reports.

Hope this helps,

ROon Brahma



>Hi, folks!
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>I tried to follow all given guidelines from UT and other sources to bring PDF report output created by VFP to work - BUT IT DOES'NT WORK.
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>- Using my well(?) DCOM registered outproc EXE due to CREATEOBJECT() from the VFP command window - all is fine and I get my PDF created by the REPORT FORM TO command in the outproc exe.
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>- Calling this outproc EXE from an InProc DLL within IIS (called by an ASPX site) don't work!
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>- If I select "starting user" at the identity page in DCOMCNFG then my OutProc exe starts and works well except the REPORT FORM TO FILE command which should create a PDF file using Acrobats PDF Writer - the EXE file hangs so hardly, only machine shutdown helps!
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>- If I'm going the same way using any other printer driver - all is fine (except the created file contains no PDF format <s>)!
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>- In my last trial I tried to follow the hint "use 'interactive user' (first option) at the identity tab in DCOMCNFG" - but in this case my OutProc EXE don't start: CREATEOBJECT returns no valid object reference, but I can see the EXE file in the process tab of the taskmanager - and I can kill it using the task managers "terminate process" button!
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>Any ideas - any hints?
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>BTW: I'm using W2K/prof SP3, VFP7 SP1, Acrobat4.05!