note brap stephanm, <p> The folks at <c>$work</c> tried something similar to this (sans Perl, sadly), and, well, the results left something to be desired. One thing we found (and maybe this is what you're running into), is that the user profile that is going to run Acrobat Reader must have the "LocalLow" ({user-home}\AppData\LocalLow) directory created.</p><p> I wonder if something like GhostScript wouldn't work better from a non-interactive standpoint? I haven't tried it, personally.</p><p> Best of luck,</p> 846082 846082