Printing to PDFCreator creates .ps files under TEMP but jobs never show up in the monitor

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 I have 1.4.2 installed on a Win7 64-bit machine.  I have read all the posts I can find on the subject and have tried all the remedies I can find.

I have a very similar problem to "ilnik" in another post where there are 2 folder structures created under TEMP (pdfcreator\\ and 2).  The .ps files are created under the "2" folder, but do not show in the monitor unless I physically copy them to the pdfcreator folder.

 

I have checked the pdfcmon version: 0.1.4.0

I have checked that TEMP and TMP are same.

I have this on another similar machine and it works with no problem , so this would seem to be a configuration problem on the second machine but I cant find it.  Please help.

I am including the contents of the pdfcmonLog file below.

 

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[11.06.2012 19:46:31]-------------------- = --------------------

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-PdfStartDocPort=Start

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]PrinterName=PDFCreator

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]JobId=19

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]ComputerName=\\\\KBN-3010

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]UserName=KBN-ken.busby

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]SessionId=2

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]WinStation=RDP-Tcp#0

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]PDFServer=FALSE

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-GetUserTmp=Start

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]RevertToSelf=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]WTSQueryUserToken=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]GetEnvironemtVariableForUser-Variable=%TMP%

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]GetEnvironemtVariableForUser-Result=C:\\Windows\\TEMP

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]User-Temp=C:\\Windows\\TEMP

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-GetUserTmp=End

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]TmpPath=C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]PostscriptFile=C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool\\C4BDCFBD83DF42D7AC8429795D385998.ps

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]DocName=Untitled - Notepad

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]OpenPrinter=True

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-PdfStartDocPort=End

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CreateFile: CloseHandle(hFile)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-StartPdfCreator=Start

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]RevertToSelf=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]WTSQueryUserToken=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]DuplicateTokenEx=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CreateEnvironmentBlock=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]EnvironmentSize=2678

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CommandLine= /PPDFCREATORPRINTER /PIFC:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool\\C4BDCFBD83DF42D7AC8429795D385998.inf

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Command=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PDFCreator\\PDFCreator.exe

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CloseHandle(hTokenDup)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CloseHandle(hTokenNew)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CloseHandle(pi.hThread)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]CloseHandle(pi.hProcess)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]DestroyEnvironmentBlock=successful

[11.06.2012 19:46:31]Modul-StartPdfCreator=End

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]-------------------- = --------------------

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]Modul-PdfStartDocPort=Start

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]PrinterName=PDFCreator

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]JobId=2

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]ComputerName=\\\\KBN-3010

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]UserName=KBN-ken.busby

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]SessionId=2

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]WinStation=RDP-Tcp#0

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]PDFServer=FALSE

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]Modul-GetUserTmp=Start

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]RevertToSelf=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]WTSQueryUserToken=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]GetEnvironemtVariableForUser-Variable=%TMP%

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]GetEnvironemtVariableForUser-Result=C:\\Windows\\TEMP

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]User-Temp=C:\\Windows\\TEMP

[11.06.2012 19:53:29]Modul-GetUserTmp=End

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]TmpPath=C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]PostscriptFile=C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool\\F9F721FDBC134702B0E23C0EC4840050.ps

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]DocName=Untitled - Notepad

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]OpenPrinter=True

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]Modul-PdfStartDocPort=End

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CreateFile: CloseHandle(hFile)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]Modul-StartPdfCreator=Start

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]RevertToSelf=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]WTSQueryUserToken=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]DuplicateTokenEx=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CreateEnvironmentBlock=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]EnvironmentSize=2678

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CommandLine= /PPDFCREATORPRINTER /PIFC:\\Windows\\TEMP\\2\\PdfCreator\\Spool\\F9F721FDBC134702B0E23C0EC4840050.inf

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]Command=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PDFCreator\\PDFCreator.exe

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CloseHandle(hTokenDup)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CloseHandle(hTokenNew)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CloseHandle(pi.hThread)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]CloseHandle(pi.hProcess)=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]DestroyEnvironmentBlock=successful

[11.06.2012 19:53:30]Modul-StartPdfCreator=End

 

 

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 Update with additional information. 

The "2" folder is being created in correspondence with my RDP session id.  This is a remote machine and as I log in at different times and get a different session id, this spool folder changes.

So the problem now seems to be that the PDFCreator is not looking in those session folders (/2/pdfcreator/...) for jobs but only in (/pdfcreator/...) for jobs.   Again if I copy the .ps files from the "2" folders into the "pdfcreator" folders thje jobs are processed.

 

So in summary, the process is: 

I am in Word for example and select the PDFCreator printer to print.  Word prints but I never get the PDFCreator diaglog.

I look in the /2/pdfcreator/... folder and see new .PS jobs.   IF i copy those into the /pdfcreator/... folder, i then get the dialog.

 

How do I get PDFCreator to pull from the sessionID specific folders ?