>If your goal is pdf output, have you looked at:
>
>http://www.mindseyeinc.com/ReportEngine/index.htm

I like this product.

But i'm currently looking for a product that will generate "on-the-fly"
a nice looking pdf document made exclusively of tiff G4 files
(scanned multi-page documents) stored in a c/s db.

Building a book on the fly from images no text. No real place
for a report writer. here.

There is a host of tools that can do the job. But the best ones
have a dll interface not an ocx one... I am unable to run the dll
interface.

The only one to work http://www.pdfocx.com/ is neat but offers
very little control on the pdf making:
- no annotation,
- no encryption,
...

A pity that this great http://www.verypdf.com/tif2pdf/tif2pdf.htm dll
interface would not work from within VFP.

François