Doug,

I can show you how to get Distiller into gear. It takes some (minor) adjustments. The biggest advantages to use Distiller:
- you can set security
- pdf's are more compact
- better support for foreign languages (like Polish etc)

Let me know in you need any help.

Regards,

Ron

>I am using Adobe Acrobat v 5.0/6.0 and have both the PDFWriter and Distller print drivers available. I am generating the PDF document out of VFP using wwPDF just fine.
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>The objective is to drive Excel from VFP and to generate a PDF report to a specific directory with a specific filename without dialog boxes. I am testing using an Excel macro and notice that DISTILLER generates a PostScript print file format, while PDFWriter generates a real PDF. The postscript PDF from DISTILLER is not recognized by Adobe which generates a 'file corrupted' message on opening. The VBA macro being used is:
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>Public Sub PDF_IT()
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>ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1, _
> ActivePrinter:="Acrobat Distiller", Collate:=True, _
> Printtofile:=True, PrToFileName:="XL_PrntFileName.pdf"
>
>End Sub
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>When the ActivePrinter is defined as "Acrobat PDFWriter", the output PDF works just fine. The target directory is defined in Printers/Properties/Ports, PORT column value.
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>The questions are:
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>(1) does DISTILLER *always* generate a postscript file or am I missing something in the macro?
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>(2) what is the advantage of DISTILLER over PDFWriter?
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>(3) Is there another method to be used to print from BOTH VFP and Excel to PDF formats?
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>Thanks