thank you. I will check it out. I have found a company called Neevia. They have a great document converter that runs as a backround service. Simple com calls to subit files to be converted is their thing. Works great without the problems associated with shellexecute. The append files function is a dog but I use amyuni for that.

Regards,
Neil

>>wwPDF is great for exactly what you stated. Fox reports over the web. However, that is not my objective. I have HTM files, not fox reports, in a directory. I want to convert the HTM files to PDF files. Rick's entire concept is based on using the pdf printer driver to convert files to PDF. I want to avoid using printer drivers. There are some products, sold as com objects, that can do the conversion and bypass the need for drivers. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this manner of file conversion?
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>>Any thoughts?
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>I've run across the pdf995 thingy, which includes a freebie printer driver, but also has some other tools (which I didn't try) - maybe some of it would work for you. Just google for pdf995, you should be able to find it.