Free code of library for 'printing' to pdf?

[cravincreeks]

Any free code or COM dll's out there for printing to PDFs? Ideally, it will work any printable document ... similar to using PDF Distiller from Print Menus. But I would like to be able to programmaticly specify the output directory and file name? I intend to use this for saving Access reports with CHARTS, which aren't really exportable to any other format.

Thanks

AZ

 

[CautionMP]

cravincreeks,
Two thoughts.
[ol][li]Ghostscript: Third party software that will do this and there are numerous posts on how to use it through out the Access forums here at Tek-Tips.[/li]
[li]If you have Distiller installed you can output the file in PostScript format from Access (add a PostScript printer to your machine that outputs To File) then move, distill, and rename the file using an Access Macro.[/li][/ol]

Hope this helps,
CMP

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[KenPuls]

PDFCreator is my number one choice.

I have some articles on my site on how to use PDFCreator via code, the most popular being <a href=

http://excelguru.ca/node/21>this

one</a>.

I haven't done any access reports, myself, as I spend most of my time in Excel, but I'm sure you can adapt what I have.

HTH,

Ken Puls, CMA

http://www.excelguru.ca