hi, Packetdog.
I can't explain the problem explicitly.
I badly know English.
I think that the problem is similar to yours.
It began about 2 weeks ago.
I installed version 1.2.0. The problem was solved.
I have exactly the same problem(posted in german forum). The PDMon uses not the defined path. I have also installed the 1.2 and the problem was solved.
Greetings
Roger
PS: I have both configurations still running. I can check it if there are new ideas.
@philip
did you recieve my mail with my video showing the problem ?
Dev Team,
Would you like a Virtual Machine image in Virtual PC, VMWare, or Virtual box? I will install Windows 7 x64, configure it similarly & install PDFCreator v1.4.1 as a server install (which is what I need) to demonstrate the issues. I may be able to forward a remote desktop to the server, or compress and host the files for you to download and run. Please tell me what more I can do to assist, or what format you prefer and I will get started. Thanks.
Hello,
Thank you very much, a VirtualBox image would be really great. Then we can tackle this here on our dev server without guessing what could cause this and then ask for you to test it.
I will send you a mail in a few minutes with ftp credentials which allows you to do the update once you have found the time to set up the image.
kind regards,
Philip
Maybe if it can help you
It seems to happend only if you install PdfCreator in server mode on Terminal Server, and then it choose only the TMP user's variable.
I choose to install it un Standard mode, and then it's fine.
Hi Philip,
I got your email, and I finally had some time to install/setup Windows 7 x64. I was very pleased that after some configuring and setup of the two hard drives, moved user profiles and TEMP variables getting setup- it behaves exactly the same way I described.
I have rar'd the entire folder and got some decent compression, so we're at about 3.5GB. I'll begin uploading now, and shoot you an email when it's done. Thanks again for doing this.
ETA for the file is around 12:00 AM GMT+1, which seems to be where the server may be located. I will still shoot over an email to let you know. Have a good one.. :)
One more thing- I noticed that I didn't have access to write to the settings files (the save button was grayed out) until I ran PDFCreator as an administrator. Please look into that as well- I have the autosave configured, but I had to do that as a UAC admin. Thanks.
Hi,
the UAC bug will be fixed soon: http://www.pdfforge.org/forum/open-discussion/9032-bug-group-policies.
regards,
Robin
The settings are located under the HKLM hive in the registry, so admin privileges (and maybe UAC) will be required to save them. This will also stay this way.
kind regards,
Philip
Thanks for clarifying Philip. I can see this not being an issue when installing this on home workstations and client machines, but this may be an issue for network administrators. It's very rare to give a program system level access just to write it's settings. Is there a reason that this wouldn't be written to a user key, or a key with access by all users? Does that even exist? I'm not that well versed on registry key permissions or registry best practice. It does seem pretty convoluted to have to run the program as a UAC administrator when you want to change settings when it can run as a user level program the rest of the time, even to receive print jobs.
I'm not a programmer, but I would think that making that decision would hinder widespread adoptation of the software. Look at Firefox and Chrome, even on a computer where you don't have administrative rights you can install these programs into your User folder and it works perfectly. Just something to think about. :)
In other news- Did you get the file, is it working?
Hi packetdog,
thanks for your help. The problem was that you changed the system variables TMP and TEMP. PDFCreator wasn't able to handle this. This is fixed in version 1.4.2. If you want you can get a link to a test version.
Best regards,
That would be neat- I'll try it out on our production machine tomorrow and see if that fixes my issue. Sounds like you nailed it. Thanks! I didn't see a link on pdfforge.org or sourceforge files/SVN, but I saw the commit... I just don't know how to build it. :) PM/Email would be great, thanks!
I sent you an email.
Hi Frank,
I can confirm that this test version of v1.4.2 works swimmingly! Both issues that I noticed (the save button in settings being greyed out) and the larger issue described in this thread are both resolved. In fact, when I uninstalled/reinstalled I found that PDF Creator picked up all the old PostScript files and started prompting me to create PDFs. This is perfect! :)
I've only tried this on the server as a local printer, but I will in the next several days get the other machines set back up, and I will report any problems here.
Thank you SO SO SO much for working on this with me. For a free program with seemingly limited revenue generation, you folks have provided excellent support. It's great to know that this program is sitll being actively supported and developed. Thanks for your hard work.