Hi John,
I can't answer you question but let me make a suggestion: Try PdfCreator. It lets you control all the process using an activex control. It has events to tell you when the jobs has finish, or report you of eventual errors.All I need is to say "Print this to CUTEPDF and store as xyz.pdf".
Download it from sf.net, and look into the samples. Best regards, Carlos. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list