"Stephanie S" <stowe@vsac.orgnospam> wrote in message
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> Hi. I have not been here much lately. I mentioned in another post, I am on
> my way out of the ASP business. I hope you will entertain a question from[/color]
me[color=blue]
> despite otherwise lack of contribution to the community.
>
> I am working on one last project (which is just goping to be converted to
> JSP in a few weeks. GRRR). I need to create PDF files using FDFMerge. My
> dillema is that I have an IIS server running ASP on one machine, and
> FDFMerge installed on another machine. FDFMerge is used by our new Java
> project using the HTTP stream. But what I would like to do is run FDFMerge
> from the IIS server.
>
> It is just a command line interface after all. So I tried to map a drive[/color]
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> the IIS machine to the FDFMerge machine, to run a test. From that mapped
> drive, I have a PDF and an FDF sitting in the same folder with the[/color]
FDFMerge[color=blue]
> executable. I attempted to perform the merge
>
> fdfmerge -o testme.pdf testsource.pdf testform.fdf
>
> I receive the message
>
> Your license file for fdfmerge can not be found or is invalid. Don't[/color]
forget[color=blue]
> to use the '-r RegistrationNumber' option to register this product.
>
> I tried to use the -r and supply the registration number and receive the
> same behavior.[/color]
You really can't access a mapped drive from ASP.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257174
Can you use a UNC path instead?
--
Tom Kaminski IIS MVP
http://www.iistoolshed.com/ - tools, scripts, and utilities for running IIS
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsser...ty/centers/iis/
