I had been running pdfCreator 1.0 successfully on Windows 7 and 8. Recently I upgraded my Windows 8 machine to 8.1 - and pdfCreator no longer works. I had been printing from VB scripts in Excel as well as other programs. Now I cannot even get output from a simple Word document.
Anyone with similar problems, explanation, solutions?
I had purposely continued to use an older version of pdfCreator as I needed to call routines from VB in Excel. It appeared that the pdfCreator subroutines had changed (or were not accessible) in newer versions of pdfCreator. I had to rely on adapting code I had found on forums for integrating pdfCreator routines into my VB code. No, I did not try uninstalling and reinstalling. Interestingly, the “Print Test Page” function in pdfCreator worked fine. But if I tried to use it from any application, it failed in a rather inelegant manner (had to kill the process).
My solution (for now) ended up using the Save As PDF function in current versions of Excel, and calling that function from my VB code. (My particular design need is that the filename of the pdf needs to be taken from an Excel cell. As the VB iterates through various data sets, each of the pdf reports needs to have a unique name.)
Thanks for the reply.
Hi,
please check if PDFCreator has writing access to its spool folder.
Do you have encrypted user profiles or is your temp directory located on a network path?
regards,
Robin
Hi,
did you reinstall PDFCreator after the Windows upgrade and have you tried using the 1.9.1 beta version? (http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/1.9.1-beta/PDFCreator-1_9_1-setup-beta.exe?file=AMIfv95scdQsq5ny3kb0OWqDzm59rfz12ggo0MX99kY7okuNoQ4mLdE4z4aWzgGn51LmiGhGuQV5uhre2rlRJhPvwbU05vZfNwNZ7a3ByfDfEZEDhIn-_yDWQmWxwGXAXlQ06tmJKnL4-Jo0b-71WaxSjGWiurXBCB7bpHKGCxaK_hBgsIO1K6c)
regards,
Robin