>I'm looking for an alternative to Adobe to make PDF files. We used to use Adobe 5.0 print driver to make the PDF by setting a registry setting. Now in 6.0 this doesn’t work and I’ve tried to change the program to edit the new registry values but they are in a different place for NT 4 vs. XP and I can’t even get it to work on Citrix 2003. So I’m fed up with Adobe 6.0 and looking for a different print driver that can be controlled by a developer to output the result to PDF. Has anyone used a different print driver that they created PDF files from programmatically?

Chuck,

I'm using Ghostscript in conjunction with RedMon. It's a bit of a pain to set it up, but it works.

There are a few possibilities.

(1) always print to a fixed file (eg \tmp\1.pdf). I use this on Terminal Server. The popup for a filename goes to the console

(2) let it ask for an output file whenever it prints

(3) you can do bunch of a print to FILE ..., combine the ps files and have ghostscript make a pdf file either by calling Gostscript directly or using rawprint (in download section)

It still uses an adobe ps driver. All output goes to a file (or a pipe depending on the way you set it up). From there on, ps files are converted to a pdf file.

(1) and (2) are transparent to the programmer