PDFCreator 2.2.1 on XP - When merging multiple documents they are in wrong order

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When printing 5 documents of 100 pages each and merge them in a single document, in the final pdf they came up in the wrong order: 1, 3, 4, 5, 2.

It seems that PDFCreator printer does not print the documents in their occurrence order. How can I control that.

For merging I am using an automation script that uses JobQueue object.

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The wrong order is not always as in the original example. It depends on how the documents are selected by PDFCreator to be printed.

Here is other example of wrong order that we got: 1, 2, 3, 5, 4

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Hi,


did you print the documents directly after eachother? 100 pages might take a while to spool, so document 2 might actually arrive at the printer earlier than document 1. Does this still happen, if you insert a delay of 30 seconds between the print jobs?

best regards,


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It is true that I launched the prints one after the other, but I expected that they will come in the proper order anyway. In the previous versions I didn’t have this issue, but that was on different OS (Windows XP), too.

I fixed the issues by adding a delay (equal with the printing time) after each print so the spooling finishes and the jobs are merged ok.