nope, i am not aborting any thread. i forgot to add an important info: sharepoint is located on two servers, meaning there is a loadbalancing installed using two servers. could it be, the task is switched to the other server when returning? meaning when starting the printing from server A to sharepoint it looks like as if the server is very busy and when returning it is switched to server B, but there is not thread active so it thinks it is aborted? that's an idea which I had when talking to some other guys.

You could test one thing just in case: - define both parameters as string and assign them - put the string to clipboard - paste the text to command prompt and execute it If the pdf is opening, it's clear that the command is valid. For example: string filename = "\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 8.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\""; string arguments = "\"C:\\sourcedir\\somefile.pdf\""; Clipboard.Clear(); Clipboard.SetText(filename + " " + arguments); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename, arguments); //paste to command prompt and execute Mika

Could you try something like this: Read each xml file one by one, and as each file is handled, write a "handled" file in the directory. Once ALL xml files are handled, rename the "handled" files to "finished" files. Hope this helps. Roy. Roy.

when i set the process to start acrobate then it does, but it does not send the file to printer, as it is intended to. is there a way to debug this (meaning the process) to see, why no file is received by the printer queue?

stephan_007 wrote: if file a_file and b_file enter at (almost) the same time, is a_file handled first or the one which is first in? It handles the first one in first. If the order is important then wait until you get a full set in before starting processing - until you have them all you can't do anything anyway, as far as I can tell from your posting. Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd

No idea. But make sure that .net is updated?

Could this[^] help? Dave

oh well, it's already quit late here :zzz: but thanks anyway :)

You can check/set the DPI within a Graphics object, but I am not sure how you process the image. xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4 out now (27 May 2008)

ups sorry, yes you are right. looks like i didn't see it when quickly reading the article. thanks for the hint!

Stephan, You can get the 1252 encoder like this. Encoding coder = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252); // Western European (Windows) AlanN

you should probably try to explain to the user that just inserting the data even if its too long is a bad idea. you could just use the string.Length to find out how long it is, and use Remove to cut off any unwanted characters

I think I asked him that same thing a few days ago.

Please only use ISO 8601 formats -- yyyy-MM-dd

Also, almost forgot, You could look into constructing using XML... XSL... "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." --Ayn Rand

Sounds like a bad design; go slap the person responsible. Why doesn't the system that writes the file perform the format?

Hi, try new Encoding(codepage) where codepage probably is 1252. There is no general way of detecting the encoding; if it is Unicode/UTF8 you will find two special leading bytes; if it is an 8-bit ASCII extension (as I expect it is for you), you won't get a clue: every codepage is another way to map the top 128 byte values to a immense collection of possible characters. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.