I have PDFCreator installed on a laptop (server version installed). Basically, I followed all instructions at the link below to run PDFCreator as a service.
http://yellowtriangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/using-pdf-creator-deployed-from-a-64bit-print-server/
I have a PHP script that runs a DOS command for PDFCreator to convert a Powerpoint files in a certain directory into PDFs. That PHP script is run as a Windows scheduled task, which is set to run every minute.
When I run the PHP script from the command line, everything works fine. It converts the PPT files with no problem. However, when it runs from task scheduler, it just hangs up and fails to convert the file.
Does anyone have any experience making this work? I would love to know what I’m missing or doing wrong here. Everything seems to be set up the way that it’s supposed to, but it just doesn’t want to work.
I found a solution. When I combined the tip in the link below with the steps in my original post, everything works as it should.
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/24812-disable-notification-when-pdfcreator-is-used-as-default-printer