I'm not sure about #4, but everything else will work in Crystal Reports. Because you mention this will be automated, make sure you check the Crystal Reports licensing regarding server-based and broadcast licensing.

>hi
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>i need to produce a standard report for many different clients. it needs to have the following sort of attributes:
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>1. approx. 100 pages
>2. variable data/wording/graphs
>3. mixture of both portrait/landscape pages
>4. ability to ole link to reports produced in external package (as .wmf files for example)
>5. able to create pdf report
>6. completely automated from vfp with no user interaction
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>just need to know if crystal is up to the job, and if not, what else out there may be able to do this?
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>if i can't find anything then i'm going to be proceeding with linking/automating msword in order to do this, with mail merged tables/pages etc. but this seems as though it will be cumbersome.
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>many thanks for any adice in advance.
>barry