Any PDF driver will do that for you; such a driver installs as if it were a
printer and, when you elect to print a report, you simply select the PDF
driver.
I use a driver named PDF995 (http://www.pdf995.com); however, you can do a
search at Google on PDF drivers and find many from which to select.
--
Cheryl Fischer, MVP Microsoft Access
Law/Sys Associates, Houston, TX
Alan Burstein said:
I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report into PDF format.
Access has no built in way to do this as you know. The first thing you need
is a printer driver that outputs PDF files. There are many around including
Adobe's, Win2PDF (www.daneprairie.com), pdfFactory (www.fineprint.com),
PDF995 (www.pdf995.com), CutePDF etc. etc.
If you want to automate the process of outputting the file from within
Access, some of those drivers support doing that by allowing you to specify
a file name via code and some do not; you can search their dev documents on
that topic. If you want to save some time, you might look at our PDF and
Mail Library for Access on our web. It supports many of those drivers and
makes the automation process fairly easy and painless.
--
Steve Arbaugh
ACG Soft http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg
Alan Burstein said:
I am trying to find the steps on how to output a report into PDF format.
i'm using Acrobat and produce PDF files from Access reports by chosing File
/ Print - setting my printer the AcrobatPDFWriter and clicking Ok - works
really well.
However, i've heard that www.pdf995.com or www.docu-track.com are cheaper
(possibly free) PDF writing programs, but i've not tried them and have no
idea if they work with access.
PDF995 installs as a driver and will appear as a Printer when you click
File|Print. It is free, as long as you do not mind a "nag screen"; or
$9.95 (US) to get rid of the "nag".
It works very well with Access; however, if you want to automate it (for
example, by naming files using VBA code) you may need a third-party add-in,
such as the one mentioned in SA's post.
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