Thanks for looking at it Herman. I appreciate it. I am testing it and playing around with it now. I had to play with the sleep times a bit to prevent it trying to connect too soon and still the settings do not seem to be consistent. I wonder if there is a way to postpone processing without using sleep or how to determine the required time to wait. Now everything pretty much works except I continously get a c5 error when it tries to close Adobe.

Also, I thought the print method would launch the print dialog but it does not. I'll have to research and see if that is possible. My intention was to silently print but to display the print dialog without displaying Adobe at all as this does (exept that it does not display the print dialog):

lcfile = "c:\tracy\p1.pdf"
DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN "Shell32.dll" ;
    INTEGER hwnd, ;
    STRING lpVerb, ;
    STRING lpFile, ;
    STRING lpParameters, ;
    STRING lpDirectory, ;
    LONG nShowCmd

llok= ShellExecute(0, "open", "acrord32.exe", " /p /h "+lcfile, "", 0)
return llok

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