Store them in a memo field of a VFP table using FILETOSTR(). Then at runtime when needed, create them using STRTOFILE() and erase them when finished. Works great!

>If I create a fillable PDF form and I want it to be encrypted or hidden on the hard drive until my vfp app needs to use it, is there anyway to do that? From within my VFP app, I create an xfdf file to go with the pdf form that will be used by the pdf form to populate the fields. When the printing is complete, I delete the xfdf file which contains the actual data for the pdf form. However, I do not want the users to be able to 'see' the pdf files at all but they must be available to the OS at the time of printing to automate printing them. The pdf forms are created using Adobe Developer 6 and have fillable fields on them. The pdf form is password protected. Is there a way to store the pdf forms in a general field or something to hide them and only make them available and 'seen' by the OS just before initiating the print job? The print is initiated via createprocess in VFP so both the xfdf and pdf files have to exist in the same directory when createprocess is run. However, the
>xfdf file is created on the fly from data in the vfp app and is deleted afterwords but I cannot delete the pdf file of course. I just want to 'hide' it.
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>Any ideas?
>TIA,
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>Tracy