Gene, Is your solution a loop attempting to get a lock on the newly created PDF file? When the lock happens release and call the COPY command?
That's how I solved a similar problem I was having with desktop search engines and anti-virus programs grabbing a file I just created. YMMV, Tracy Gene Wirchenko wrote: > Hello: > > You work so hard at getting things to work. Then, something > happens to give you grief. If it always happened, it would be easy > to verify that your potential solution to it really does work. If it > is occasional, you can not be sure that you have nailed it. > > I have one of those situations. > > I would like to compliment Adobe on how easy they make it to > use their Adobe PDF printer driver. Unfortunately, since they do not > make it easy, I can not very well compliment them. This USENET > message of mine (<e59oh2111dikqj55oa91cdse0984htu...@4ax.com>) says > quite a bit of it. > > Occasionally, I run into what appears to be a race condition > between printing with the Adobe PDF driver and copying the PDF. I > posted here about this. My potential solution is to have two Adobe > PDF printer drivers and printing one copy to each Adobe PDF > printer. Occasionally, it hangs up. > > My code is not buggy, at least to the extent that it does > usually work. The problem may well be Adobe's code. Whatever. I > need to assure myself that I have indeed solved the problem. > > What can cause trouble for a printer driver? I would like to > force the problem to appear, at least fairly reliably, so that I can > check my solution. Any ideas? > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/4a6908b7.6070...@powerchurch.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
