PDFCreator 2.3, Windows 10, printing from Delphi XE7

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I have been using PDFCreator since version 1.5 to print from Delphi apps. Delphi 7 under windows xp or 2003, win 7 worked fine.  Then migrated to Delphi XE7 and win 7/64 works fine with PDFCreator 2.3. However, the same program with the same setup options will not work under Win 10.   I read a previous discussion about permissions to temp folders.

Note that PDFCreator 2.3 under win 10, works fine for printing through MS Word.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi,

do you get any error messages?
The only known issue that only affects the COM interface and not the GUI is sometimes there is a strange problem with Ghostscript errors, in which case reinstalling Ghostscript 9.10 (x86) into the PDFCreator folder (overwriting the existing Ghostscript folder) solves the problem.

best regards,

 

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Robin
I installed Ghostscript 9.10 (x86) as instructed but no difference. The program hangs with a “not responding” message and there are no error messages.  Also note that win 10 runs @ 64 bits, but your instructions were for GS x86. Correct?
Thanks

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Hi,

yes PDFCreator always uses the x86 Ghostscript.
But I am afraid I don’t have any idea what could be causing this…
Are you able to run the COM examples that get installed together with PDFCreator on the Win 10 machine ?

best regards,

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Robin,
I tried the VBscript example. After a series of messages, it gave me the following message.
Invalid path. Please check if the directory exists"  Code 80004005. I added a fixed name to save to and the same message comes up. This is a brand new win10 x64 unit, just out of the box. MS Office is not even installed yet.
Thanks

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Robin,
I tried the VBscript example. After a series of messages, it gave me the following message.
Invalid path. Please check if the directory exists"  Code 80004005. I added a fixed name to save to and the same message comes up. This is a brand new win10 x64 unit, just out of the box. MS Office is not even installed yet.
Thanks

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Hi,


i was able to reproduce this here, the problem was fullPath = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullname ) & "\Results\TestPage_2Pdf.pdf " 
but the "Results folder isn’t created anywhere.
Changing it to fullPath = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullname ) & "\TestPage_2Pdf.pdf " will fix this.

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Yes, it worked. It needs to be copied to another directory with permissions, and then it is fine.
Will let you know about the original issue when I resolve it. At least I have a starting point.
Thanks Robin.