If you want to distribute your program to others ... .do they need to buy 
adobe acrobat?  can you pay Adobe to distribute their distiller? 
Thanks.


> Note that I am using Acrobat 4, NT4sp6, vb6sp5:
> The following code works just fine:
> 
> Private Sub Command1_Click()
>     Dim pdf  As New PdfDistiller
>     pdf.FileToPDF "d:\A16.eps", "", ""
> End Sub
> 
> I had to add a reference to Acrobat Distiller (Acrodist.exe) to the 
project.
> Maybe thats the difference?
> 
>   Randy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cheriot@m... [mailto:cheriot@m...]
> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:17 AM
> > To: professional vb
> > Subject: [pro_vb] Adobe PDFDistiller Automation runtime error 429
> >
> >
> > I am using acrobat 5 on NT 4, developing in VB6.
> >
> > My project requires that I create pdf files from postscript.
> >
> > I am trying to use the the following function from a class module to
> > achieve this on the client prior to deploying the class module as an 
exe
> > dll on a server.
> > ***********************************************************
> > Public Function PStoPDF(ByVal NewFileOut As String)
> >
> > ''Take the individual .ps files and use distiller to change them to 
pdf's
> > Dim pdfDist As ACRODISTXLib.PdfDistiller
> > Dim DistilOk As Integer, FileIn As String, FileOut As String
> > '
> > FileIn = NewFileOut & "ps"
> > FileOut = NewFileOut & "pdf"
> > Set pdfDist = New ACRODISTXLib.PdfDistiller
> > DistilOk = pdfDist.FileToPDF(FileIn, FileOut, "")
> >
> > End Function
> > ***********************************************************
> > the process hangs at the set command eventually returning:
> > run-time error 429, active x can't create object
> >
> > Project references are loaded for acrobat distiller and adobePDFmakerX,
> > all code is available from auto complete etc.
> >
> > any advice please?
>