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I am unable to create output to a PDF file. I have tried to make it work both interactively and programmatically to no avail. I have read and followed the two help items: "Printing to a PDF file" and "Creating PDF output" and neither work.____When I try interactevaly, the screen just flashes, no errors and no output. Basically the same thing happens with programatically, except no screen flash, but I still get no errors and no output. The rrunout file (programatically) shows 0 pages were printed, but there is no error.____The runout table has ro_ecode = "N" with no error message and ro_pages = 0. When I run this same report to the printer, ro_ecode also shows "N" and ro_pages shows "3"____I am running on Windows XP Pro as administrator, so there should be problems there. I have also upgraded to the most current version of RR10+ (10.1/003)____Does anyone have any suggestions as to what my problem(s) are/is? I believe I am missing something, but don^t know what it is.__

I do hundreds of PDFs every month, so I know this works. I would check the following:__1. does the output path exist?__2 Do you have the file extension of the output file as .pdf You must specifically do this.__3. Just to test, try making the output something simple, like XXX.pdf__and see if that works. If it soes, the path is the problem.

Thanks for the reply. I did get it to work. What I did was to manually install the R&R PDF Export driver. Everything I read said that it should work without this step, but it didn^t for me.____This confuses me. It should have worked, but didn^t. ____Thanks again...__

In your control file you need:____RI_PRINTER=__RI_WPTR=R&R PDF Export__RI_OUTFILE=C: eportsmyfile.PDF____Note that RI_PRINTER must be blank and RI_OUTFILE contains the path and filename for the output PDF file.____Kathleen__R&R Support

Yep, I did get it to work. See my reply to the previous message. ____Thanks for your help!