http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html Looks pretty open to me. Really, I would focus on creating XSLT files for XML output from microsoft applications to applications you use, so you can interchange and edit the files easily. Sadly, microsoft isn't making XML files that can easily be 'converted' with XSLT sometimes, becuase soemtimes its some binary stream wrapped in XML. (thanks, guys!) -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at efnet "When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?" -Larry Wall -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010310/8a02471a/attachment.pgp