Document was printed out instead of PDF being created

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I created a PDF of a long document (PhD) thesis - no problem. I went
through it in detail, & corrected some errors in the original Word
(2007) document, then tried to create a PDF again. No PDF was created,
& the original document was printed out in full. I allowed it to
“set PDF Creator as default printer on both occasions” - but got very
different results. Seems to be a serious flaw.

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I used Windows XP Professional, btw, & the latest PDF Creator, downloaded today.

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Hi,


how did you approach this? Usually it shouldn´t be neccessary to set PDF Creator as default printer. Did you do print->PDFCreator in word, or did you somehow drag n drop the file to the print monitor, or use some other method?

regards,

Robin
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Hi Robin,

After downloading PDF Creator & Architect, I right-clicked on my Word (docx) file & chose "Create PDF with PDF Creator." A dialogue box appeared asking me to select PDF Creator as my default printer. I clicked OK, & a PDF was created, first time. I examined the PDF, looking for errors, found a few, & corrected them in the original word document. Then I tried to create a PDF again by the same method, but it didn't work. Each time, after I clicked OK in the same dialogue box (that asked me to select PDF Creator as my default printer) the document started to print. I couldn't find any way to get around this, to create a PDF. My solution was to go to my university network & do the conversion there (they use PDF Creator). There seems to be some sort of bug in the software, & I thought I'd let ou know about it. I have created PDFs on the same machine with older verions of PDF Creator.

Patrick.

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Hi,


the issue is probably related to the method used to convert the files, if you open them in word and then print them to the PDFCreator printer, it will probably work.

regards,

Robin