Pdfcreator 2.0.1 - Difficulty printing over network

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1

Howdy!


I have upgraded my PDFCreator 1.7.x to 2.0.1.

I have been able to get it operating on my print server sporadically, but now it does not seem to be acting right at all.

I can still print locally, and I can run the program as localsystem and print test pages, but I am not seeing anything come through via network printer.

2

I have created a new printer with a new profile, still no-go.


At one point I saw the dialog “a program is requesting attention” and it switched to the PDFCreator GUI on the print server, however that has not done this lately.

I have uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled (twice) with a manual deletion of the PDFCreator folder from C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, as well as the PDF…net folder

I can see the remote print job come to the print queue and disappear again.



3

Updating now to 2.0.2 to see if anything is fixed.


4

Same behavior with 2.0.2 – the client PC shows the job go to the print server, the print server shows the job appear and disappear, but the file does not write out to the drive.



5

OK… very strange :slight_smile:


To test settings I run PDFCreator off a local system command prompt (the context the spooler runs in for network).

The profile didn’t exist in this context, so I recreated and applied it to the printer.

When I launch the PDF Creator GUI from the command prompt (so it’s running as local system) I can print the PDFCreator test page, but the windows test page fails, notepad print to the named printer fails, and the debug log shows nothign from those jobs.

6

I have the same problem since version 2.0
Why the server mode installation have been flush?

7

Same problem. Windows7-Server2008R2

I’d be willing to get paid version if I was sure it was working there.
8

Ok, I found answer

So go back to 1x or wait N amount of months
I am afraid there is no server mode available in version 2.0 anymore, but we are planning to create a proper windows service instead.

9

Hi,


yes that is correct, the old way of forcing a desktop application into server mode didn’t seem like the best approach so we decided to go for a separate service instead. It is already being worked on. But for now, the latest version with a server mode is 1.7.3.

best regards,