I don’t know from what version of PDFCreator this behavior started but i’ve tried the following with 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 and the problem does exist. Here’s what happens. Under Win7Pro SP1, i open MSWord (or any other program, it does not matter) and print a document to PDFCreator from it. PDFCreator printer is not the default. When i select PDFCreator and then press Print, MSWord prints the document but no PDFCreator window appears.
I checked AutoSave but it is turned off. After some search, i discovered that PDFCreator creates a folder named “PDFCreator” under %TEMP% but for some reason, the current user and/or Administrators group are not the owners of that folder. The result of course is that the current user cannot access this folder so PDFCreator does nothing what you send a document to it. Taking ownership of the folder just solves the problem.
I am having the same problem with PDFCreator not printing the document. It acts as though it prints but no Save to window opens with 1.9.1.317. With 1.7.2 I Save To window would open so I could select a location, but it didn’t actually save the document.
OS: Windows7 Pro SP1 64bit
Below is the log:
2013-12-21 20:42:49.3457 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Program.TryStartApplication: There was an error while starting the application: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path ‘C:\Users\MikellAdmire\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool\B9A33FB8E0ED4E2DB5FFEACF0D311E92.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)
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…ctor(String infFile, ApplicationSettings appSettings)
at pdfforge.PDFCreator.JobInfoQueue.Add(String jobInfo)
at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Program.TryStartApplication(CommandLineParser commandlineParser, String newJob)
2013-12-21 20:44:34.7550 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Helper.UpdateManager.UpdateThread: Exception in UpdateProcedure:
An exception occurred during a WebClient request.
2013-12-21 20:57:41.9079 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Helper.UpdateManager.UpdateThread: Exception in UpdateProcedure:
An exception occurred during a WebClient request.
2013-12-21 21:01:25.3542 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Helper.UpdateManager.UpdateThread: Exception in UpdateProcedure:
An exception occurred during a WebClient request.
2013-12-21 21:02:07.9926 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.Helper.UpdateManager.UpdateThread: Exception in UpdateProcedure:
An exception occurred during a WebClient request.