How to print a pdf without Adobe dialog box and without opening Adobe afterwards?

I find that instead of using Adobe, I use another PDF Print driver which allows me to pre-configure the PDF Print driver to ALWAYS output to the same directory and the same filename.   I generally pre-configure it to write to a local directory to prevent accidental over-writes by other users.

In that way I am never presented with a SAVE AS... dialog box - nor any other dialog boxes.

Additionally once the PDF file has been created my VFP application always 'knows' where to find it and what its name will be so it can then be moved , if necessary, to another directory location and, again if necessary, renamed  along the way.

There are a number of PDF Print drivers out there and many of them are free.
The one I am currently using is   BullZip   but there are many that you can choose from.

Good Luck

Bullzip is free for personal use and commercial use for up to 10 users. It allows printing with either a SaveAS prompt or a default (local) destination path and file name, which you can see as a temp output you can copy afterwards to the final destination path of course. I think you can even set some registry value to change output destination before printing. At least you don't have that SaveAs dialog, if you don't want it.

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

There are so many and all of them except Adobes PDF printer allow you to set the output path... PDFCreator, PrimoPDF, CutePDF. I tested quite a lot and in my experience CIB PDF Brewer did the best job in printing everything. Some test document other PDF printer drivers failed on, was a XLS file (Office2003) with graphics in the page header or footer, which did print with PDF brewer. It's not free but worth it's price.

Bye, Olaf.

When we have said above - FREE, we assumed that you understood that we meant 'royalty free'.

"the user may be using another non-Adobe driver"
Adding another PDF Print driver which is configured for use by your VFP application is no problem.
it is no different than if the user were using multiple printers, merely choose the one you want to use for that specific print job.

A PDF Printer works within Windows.  
To VFP it is merely one more 'printer' and it works will all VFP versions.

To use it your VFP application generally temporarily changes the workstation default printer to the PDF Print driver, 'prints' the report, and then changes the workstation default printer back to its original setting.

After that it can move the PDF file to another directory and rename it as it does so.

Good Luck