Hello
I Have install the latest version of PDFCreator 0.9.8 on a print server with Windows Server 2003 32bit, and i want to know how to add x64 drivers on this server ?
How do you create the driver in Windows XP x64 ?
Thank you in advance
You just have to Uninstall and re-Install and during installation, select 32 AND 64 bits drivers.
You can't add 64 bit driver to a 32 bit os.
Yes, you can.
Do you mean "you can't add PDFcreator 64 bit driver to a 32 bit os"? If so, why not?
(right click printer -> properties -> sharing -> additional drivers)
EDIT: I too need to install 64 bit shared driver on our 32 bit w2k3 server for PDFcreator. Without success so far.
64 bit drivers works well with ordinary printers, only PDFcreator is somewhat of a showstopper.
We too have this issue. It exhibits itself on 2k3 and 2008 print servers. When you choose server install and it is a 32bit print server it does NOT install the 64 bit drivers and does give you a way to install them, nor are they in any browsable directory to load up.
We run 32 bit print servers, but support a number of 64 bit clients and have ALWAYS just added the additional print drivers as mentioned above. Will this change be supported in version 99?
We are an enterprise customer who has paypaled before and will happily do so again, especially if this was a quick change.
I have checked this and you are right - it works. 
You can get this feature in one of our next releases.
Best regards,
I also have the same Problem like User "brba".
This Programm seems to be nice. But without this feature it is a no go.
Can somebody say if this will be resolved ????
It has not been fixed as of version 0.9.9. We downloaded it and installed it two days ago and still were not presented with the option and it did NOT install both drivers automatically. Nor can you browse to locate the driver anywhere for manual install as discussed above. It is a shame it wasn't added to the 0.9.9. release... at the very least, just include it in the install directory so we can browse and add it ourselves. That should have been able to make any release deadline. Once again, we are willing to donate via paypal for this feature.
Yes, this would work for one computer but is too cubersome for many computers (say hundreds).
The driver should be delivered from the server to the client when the printer is added on the client.
I haven't had time to examine this enough, but I have got some scrap of knowledge. To get w2k3 to deliver both 32- and 64-bit drivers, the drivers has to have exactly the same name, if you look att HP:s Universal Print Driver for example.
PDFcreator obviously makes a PDF of everything Postscript you throw at it, I changed the driver from PDFcreators own to HP's Universal Print Driver PS and things are (apparently) working (for both 32- and 64-bits). Just made the switch today so I don't know if there are any problems with this. At first glanse it works like a charm (the driver has to be configured on the server of course, papersizes et.c.). End user may be somewhat confused by trays et.c. also.
My suggestion is that PDForge makes a separate package of the driver, to be installed on the server directly. I don't know if you can include both 32- and 64-bit drivers in the same package, but maybe?
In the next version is it possible to install a 64 driver on 32 bit system. A first test setup works.
As brba mentioned, the method outlined above is way too cumbersome for 100s of machines or even dozens, especially when everything else is centrally managed and deployed on your network. While installing the 64bit client on 64bit machines and then pointing them to the the 32bit print server does in fact work and we tested that it does, it just is not a good solution for the enterprise.
Frank, I'm glad to hear that this has been addressed in the next release. We are looking forward to it. Is there any ETA on this?
Of course it is to complicated for 100 pc's, I only mentioned it as a possible way to get the driver installed.
Also glad to see this will be included in a next version. :)
Greetings,
Nic
I found a way to connect a 64bit client to a windows server 2003 PDFCreator installation.
First of all, install PDFCreator on the 64 bit client. Then install it on the windows 2003 server and share the pdfcreator printer. From the 64 bit client, add the shared pdfcreator printer. Then uninstall PDFCreator from the 64 bit client.
This worked on my Windows 7 x64 installation. I can create now pdf's to my user directory on the Windows 2003 server.
Maybe you can try this?
Greetings,
Nic
Hello
When will the new version be released , we need to get the x64 and x32 bit drivers working for our mixed environment . We are rolling out W7 x64 but are running an 32 bits 2003 print server .
Well, the hack I mentioned above (using a different postscript driver) works great here in our environment.
We're using a 32-bit server and lots of 64-bits workstations.
I tried brba’s solution with another postscript driver but it didn’t work for me (when trying to open the settings page the printer dialouge box disappeared), so i wrote an inf file to add the x64 drivers to the server. You need to do a sample installation of PDFCreator on a x64 machine and copy the file PDFCREAT.PPD from its spooler directory to the location where you saved the inf file. Then you can add the x64 driver from this machine to the printer on the x86 server and point to the inf file when asked for the driver (unsigned driver, ignore the warnings). Worked fine for me.
pdfcreator.inf:
[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Provider=%PDFCR%
LayoutFile=ntprint.inf
ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Class=Printer
DriverVer=09/23/2005,0.9.0
[Manufacturer]
“PDFCreator”=Models,NTamd64
[Models.NTamd64]
“PDFCreator” =PDFCREATOR
[PDFCREATOR]
CopyFiles=@PDFCREAT.PPD
DataSection=PSCRIPT_DATA
DataFile=PDFCREAT.PPD
Include=NTPRINT.INF
Needs=PSCRIPT.OEM,PSCRIPT_DATA
[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir=66000
[Strings]
PDFCR=“PDFCreator”
anotherones solution worked fine for me aswel
to add driver from workstation > print server.
1. Find yourself a windows 7 workstation.
2. Download the windows 7 print driver you want to add, to your print server.
3. Go to windows 7 Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Print Management (1)
4. Right click on “Print Servers” > “Add/Remove Servers…” (2)
5. Insert the server computername and click button “Add to List” > OK (3)
6. Expand “Print Servers” in the left pane of Print Management (4)
7. Expand to print server you’ve just added to the list (4)
8. Right click on “Drivers” > “Add Driver…” (5)
9. You will see a Add Print Driver wizard > Next
10. Choose if you want to add a Itanuim, x64 or x86 print driver > Next
11. Click button “Have Disk…” and “Browse…” to the driver you have downloaded > Open > OK
12. All drivers found in the file you have specified will be shown in the “Add Print Wizard”, choose the one you would like at add to the server > Next
13. Finish > The driver will be added to the server and windows 7 workstations will now be able to find and install the print driver from the print server.
Yeah I think that reinstalling it can take a lot of time I love the last solution or you can try a driver update program from the internet to check your drivers .
Need more clarification:
The 64-bit print driver is not a PDFCreator print driver bundled with PDFcreator installer but Microsoft? So to install on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit, I follow the above before installing PDFCreator or attached PDFCreator shared printer (installed on Windows 2003 32-bit)?
If the PDFCreator installer has the PDFCreator 64-bit driver, how does one select it? I do not recall in 1.2.1 server installation seeing an options to select drivers, just platforms which the latest was Windows 2003 32-bit.
Thanks in advance for assistance.