Pdfcreator 2.1.1 Windows 7 64-bit not working

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I couldn’t find any information on this, but here’s what’s happening.

1) When I choose to print to the PDFCreator printer, the dialog to enter information about the PDF never appears.  It just does nothing.  The only thing that will trigger this dialog is the Print PDFCreator Test Page but the Print Windows Test Page does nothing.

I looked at the log and finally got a error log entry with this information:

2015-06-03 23:07:46.6092 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Startup.MaybePipedStart.TryStartApplication: There was an error while starting the application: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path ‘C:\Users\david\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool\3921D9D3BEBD40F496311C88EE901A27.inf’ is denied.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.FileStream…ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
   at System.IO.FileStream…ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access)
   at pdfforge.DataStorage.Storage.IniStorage.ReadData(String path, Boolean clear)
   at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Core.Jobs.JobInfo.ReadInf(String infFile, TitleReplacer titleReplacer)
   at pdfforge.PDFCreator.JobInfoQueue.Add(String jobInfo)
   at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Startup.NewPrintJobStart.StartApplication()
   at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Startup.MaybePipedStart.TryStartApplication()

Not sure what is causing this, but I haven’t altered any permissions or anything and the printer has full permissions for all users under the printer settings.  I had an older version of pdfcreator installed and it used to work fine, but I haven’t used this in several months and with the new update, it simply doesn’t work.  Any ideas?
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When I navigate to the *.inf file and look at the security settings, it says Unable to display current owner.

I can change the owner to my user and then open the file just fine.  So perhaps the issue is with the program not assigning the correct user/permissions to the inf file when it creates it?
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Hi,


the problem most likely is, your users temp folder doesn’t have correct permissions, as the folders and files PDFCreator creates in there inherit its permisions. Take over ownership for your temp folder and give your user and the system account full access to it, then delete the PDFCreator folders below it or give those the required permissions, too.

best regards,