Sending Excel(.xls) to Adobe Pdf Printer causes a DDE Error

Hi everybody!
I have a problem with printing excel documents with Adobe Acrobat 7. Well actually its not me but a custommer of mine using a programm i have written. The programm starts a printing process for each document in a directory. This works fine for most of them. There are hundreds of xls files in this directory. There are only troubles with 3 or 4 of them. Every time i call one of this documents excel wants to open the xls file and print it over the default printer, in this case Adobe Pdf. But Excel is unable to open the file. The Error message only tells me that it seems to be a Problem with DDE and that i should check the length of the filename. Google told me that Excel is able to open files with a filenam up to 218 signs. The filenames of the files i try to print is only up to a 100 or max 150 signs( directory path included!).
Is there anyone with an idea what may causes this problem. I need help. really.

I think if the problem is with opening the file you may want to find a
forum where Excel programming is discussed.
Aandi Inston

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