.doc conversion to .PDF, drops header/footer lines

Good morning!

My VB app (6.0) creates multiple mail merge documents, combines them, and then allows the user to convert this doc to PDF via Adobe PDFWriter (as a printer). The conversion works fine with one exception -- the conversion to PDF through VB drops the line I have in the header and footer of the document.

I am using VB 6, Office XP (Word 2002), Windows 2000, Adobe Acrobat 5.0

When I manually convert a document the lines in the header and footer show up just fine, but not when I run the conversion through my VB app. Adobe maintains settings until a user changes them so it logically isn't a settings issue (of course, Microsoft is involved so logic sometimes doesn't apply!!! Don't get me wrong, I love the power of the Office programs, just not some of the silly glitches that come with it!!).

I'm very naive when it comes to VB so any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!! Due to the size of the document manual conversion is not ideal -- it sometimes "craps out" the system resources, but running it invisibly in the background from VB doesn't (not to mention it converts in less than half the time!! 1/2 hour as opposed to 1-2 hours!).

Has anyone seen this behavior before?


Thanks in advance for any advice!!
Mary