Convert files to PDF, compress PDF documents, and share and store your files with Adobe Acrobat Pro. I would imagine newer versions of Adobe Acrobat ARE NOT compatible with Visual Basic 6, additionally, the licenses for Adobe Acrobat are kind of pricey when the ONLY functionality I need is the ability to programmatically print to PDF. Do your best work online with Adobe Acrobat. I have tried using Microsofts built-in Print to PDF, and that works, BUT it prompts the user to save the file, it also has the wrong default filename and location, and I see no way to programmatically change that from VB6.
The company I am working for has rendered my services to help them get their information system application migrated from Windows XP machines to Windows 10 machines. results are not that good.I am hoping to get some help with a work problem I recently "inherited". When you do File, Print from WP6, instead of selecting a printer, you should have an option to select PDFWriter (it appears as a printer). your looking for something like Print to File (sorry I don't have the documentation for 6).
I recommend the above with a PostScript printer driver as the results are better. voila, PDF is created from a WPD document that was outputed to a PostScript file. Then launch Acrobat Distiller 5, then File, Open and select the *.prn file. You should get a dialoag that ask's for a file name: the resulting file with a *.PRN extension is will be a PostScript file.
Fastest way to create a PostScript file: install a PostScript printer driver, launch WP6, open your document (that you want to distill), go File, Print, select the PostScript printer driver you just added, then in the Print dialog, look for an option: Print to File, enable that. Makes sense, as WP6x is 16bit while upgrading to 7 or higher is basically upgrading to 32bit versions of WP which will work better with other 32bit (Adobe Acrobat) applications. Keep in mind these are solutions proposed by Adobe and not Corel.