Converting from Word to PDF across Acrobat 5 thru 7 ....

[ksw1069]

I have to support a VB app that was has a functionality that allows the user to edit a Word document and then with a click of a button, the document is converted to PDF and then e-mailed to a designated recipient.

When this app was created Adobe Acrobat 5.0 was out and the developer at that time used 'ConverttoPDF' from within Word to accomplish this. Since I've picked up this assignment, any new user with a new machine has Adobe 7.0, and I had to revise this functionality to use the appropriate for Acrobat 7.0, since 'ConverttoPDF' no longer is used for Acrobat 7...

Now I find out that my solution for Acrobat 7.0 users no longer works for the many who are still using Acrobat 5 & 6 ....

I must find a way to detect which version and use the appropriate method...

Or, is there a generic method that can be used across all three versions of Acrobat? If not, how can I even determine which version the user has running before taking the appropriate step?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated !!!

Thank you...

 

[royalcheese]

Hi I use abbyy finereader Corperate edition , as it comes with a hotwatched folder program that OCR's and RePDF's files to 7