@p856 wrote:
In using a program called Kicad for circuit boards I attempted to print to pdf using pdfcreator. The print is atrocious as can be seen in the screenshot I included. If I print to a physical printer from Kicad all is fine so there is a problem with pdfcreator. I also tried all profiles included, as well as downloaded the latest creator with same results.
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@SJung wrote:
I installed PDFCreator 2.5.15 on german terminalserver with german language setting. The context menu entry on file explorer is correct and functional. But when the users use the context menu entry from the "file open" dialog of Office (Version 2010) the entry of converting to pdf ist in english, not in german and using it brings an error "could not find pdfcreator...". I put a Video on sharefile, but I cant post links here.
Any ideas of preventing this error without disabling the context menu entry?Thanks
Steffen
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@Undegaussable wrote:
We are running the latest PDF creator on a Server 2012 R2 installation. We have the terminal server license, and have activated it successfully. It seems like every day though, when we open PDFCreator it tells us that the license has expired and we have to run online activation again (which uses the same key and activates successfully every time). If there's a way to not make this pop up every day, I would love to know the fix or workaround, thanks!
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@SebBruening wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am having some trouble with automating the process of converting a file to pdf, merging it with a second pdf containing a letterhead (as a watermark) and then printing it on a pre defined printer. (In my case GFI Faxmaker, but printing on a physical printer makes no difference to the problem, I tried.)
I am using the most recent version of PDFCreator.
I think I configured the options for the profile I am planning to use correctly. The pdf file with content and watermark is being saved in the right location and looks fine.
But the file being sent to the printer misses the watermark.
What am I missing?
Thx in advance
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@edc2014 wrote:
Does PDFCreator no longer support server install mode? I tried installing the latest version 2.5.1 on a x64 client, chose expert settings, and there's no server install mode which means I was only able to install the x64 driver and not the x32 driver with it. How can i load the 32 bit driver on 2.5.1 on x64 Clients?
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@jco23 wrote:
Hi all,
this is my first post, and I need some basic assistance please.I've set up some VBA code via Access to merge some PDF files into one PDF document.
My code is almost there. my only roadblock is that once each PDF gets sent to the PDFCreator Print Queue, the macro freezes until I close Adobe Acrobat (using Reader since some of the folks that I support do NOT have Pro).
I'm somewhat able to work around that by launching Adobe first, but then the PDFCreator dialogue box appears with all of the jobs queued up. I tried using a sendkeys command to work through that, but to no avail.
below is my code:
Private Sub MergePDFs_Click()
If FileThere("Acrobat.exe") Then
ShellEx "Acrobat.exe"
Else
ShellEx "AcroRd32.exe"
End IfDim fn(0 To 20) As String, s As String
Dim p_file_name As StringDim yearstr As String
Dim YYYYMM As StringYYYYMM = (Year(Now()) * 100) + Month(Now())
If Mid(Me.text1, 4, 2) * 1 > 96 Then
yearstr = "19" & Mid(Me.text1, 4, 2)
Else
yearstr = "20" & Mid(Me.text1, 4, 2)
End Ifp_file_name = Left(Me.text1, 3) & "" & yearstr & Right(Me.text1, 3) & "p_" & YYYYMM & ".pdf"
fn(0) = "C:\file1.pdf"
fn(1) = "C:\file2.pdf"
fn(2) = "C:\file3.pdf"
fn(3) = "C:\file4.pdf"
fn(4) = "C:\file5.pdf"
fn(5) = "C:\file6.pdf"
fn(6) = "C:\file7.pdf"
fn(7) = "C:\file8.pdf"s = "C:\merged_PDF_File.pdf"
PDFCreatorCombine fn(), s
If FileThere("C:\merged_PDF_File.pdf") Then
Application.FollowHyperlink "C:\merged_PDF_File.pdf"End If
End SubSub PDFCreatorCombine(sPDFName() As String, sMergedPDFname As String, Optional tfKillMergedFile As Boolean = True)
Dim oPDF As PDFCreator.PdfCreatorObj, q As PDFCreator.Queue
Dim pj As PrintJob
Dim v As Variant, i As Integer, ii As Integer
Dim fso As Object, tf As Boolean
Dim s() As String
Dim brestart As Boolean
Dim MergedPDF As String
MergedPDF = "C:\merged_PDF_File.pdf"Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If tfKillMergedFile And fso.FileExists(sMergedPDFname) Then Kill sMergedPDFnameSet q = New PDFCreator.Queue
With q
On Error Resume Next
.ReleaseCom
.InitializeIf LBound(sPDFName) = 0 Then
.WaitForJobs UBound(sPDFName) + 1, 1
Else
.WaitForJobs UBound(sPDFName), 1
End IfSet oPDF = New PDFCreator.PdfCreatorObj
tf = .WaitForJobs(ii, 5)i = 0
For Each v In sPDFName()
If fso.FileExists(v) Then oPDF.PrintFilei = i + 1
Next v
On Error GoTo endnow
.MergeAllJobsSet pj = q.NextJob
With pj
.SetProfileByGuid "DefaultGuid"
.SetProfileSetting "Printing.PrinterName", "PDFCreator"
.SetProfileSetting "Printing.SelectPrinter", "SelectedPrinter"
.SetProfileSetting "OpenViewer", "false"
.SetProfileSetting "OpenWithPdfArchitect", "false"
.SetProfileSetting "ShowProgress", "false"
.ConvertTo sMergedPDFname
End With
endnow:
.ReleaseCom
End With
Set pj = NothingEnd Sub
thanks!
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@A.josso wrote:
Bonjour,
Je recherche une méthode pour mettre en place un texte par dessus mon document sans pour autant que le texte du document soit effacé.
Le but final est à partir d'un document PDF générer une image JPEG avec un texte mise en place comme un filigramme.
Je cherche déjà dans un premier temps à faire un PDF vers un PDF avec un filigramme.Seulement je me retrouve dans la problématique suivante :
- En utilisant l'option" ajouter un arrière plan", mon texte se retrouve non visible sur intégration d'image dans le pdf.
- En utilisant l'option "Tampon",, le texte est visible est partout, par contre il m’empêche de voir les valeur en dessous.Mon souhait serait en faite un texte qui apparait sur toutes les pages, mais que ce texte ait un système de transparence afin que l'on voit encore le texte en dessous.
Est-ce possible?
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@gcjm wrote:
Out of Microsoft Visual Foxpro (VFP), I can print a report to the printer "PDFCreator". I determine the PDF Creator output directory for the pdf output file in the PDF creator options. This works perfect!
My need is to determine the pdf file name before every printing process. This time, the file names are like by the set tokens. But I would need a name not dependent from the tokens.
In VFP, a print command looks like:
REPORT FORM c:\myform TO PRINTER
whereby the PRINTER is set to the printer PDFCreator.Another possibility is to start a "DOS command" like
RUN pdfcreator.exe runtime-parametersDo you see a possiblity to set a different output pdf file name for every printing?
Thank you!
gcjm
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@Josh1 wrote:
I am using the example code in the directory 'PDFCreator\COM Scripts\C#.Net\COM_TestForm\COM_TestForm.sln', and for some reason I am getting an error on the line 'printJob.ConvertTo(convertedFilePath);' saying "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". This error occurs when you click each of the 5 buttons, the code for the 'TestPage2PDF' is shown below.
I have seen a couple of other threads having the same issue, and I have tried the suggestion from another thread of changing the file path to My Documents with no sucess, is there a known fix for this yet?
using pdfforge.PDFCreator.UI.COM;
namespace COM_TestForm
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}private void testPage_btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { var jobQueue = new Queue(); var assemblyDir = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location; var resultsDir = assemblyDir.Replace("\\bin\\Debug\\COM_TestForm.exe", "\\Results"); var convertedFilePath = Path.Combine(resultsDir, "TestPage_2PDF.pdf"); try { MessageBox.Show("Initializing the job queue"); jobQueue.Initialize(); MessageBox.Show("Printing windows test page..."); PrintWindowsTestPage(); if (!jobQueue.WaitForJob(10)) { MessageBox.Show("The job didn't arrive within 10 seconds"); } else { MessageBox.Show("Currently there are " + jobQueue.Count + " job(s) in the queue"); MessageBox.Show("Getting job instance"); PrintJob printJob = jobQueue.NextJob; printJob.SetProfileByGuid("DefaultGuid"); MessageBox.Show("Converting under DefaultGuid"); printJob.ConvertTo(convertedFilePath); if (!printJob.IsFinished || !printJob.IsSuccessful) { MessageBox.Show("Could not convert: "); } else { MessageBox.Show("The conversion was succesful!"); } } } catch (Exception err) { MessageBox.Show("An error occured: " + err.Message); } finally { MessageBox.Show("Releasing the queue object"); jobQueue.ReleaseCom(); } }}
}
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@cng9 wrote:
Everytime I print to PDF Creator, I see
Is it possible to not have this window appear every time i print to PDFCREATOR?
Thanks
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@spade wrote:
I've put three option fields on a form and like to group them so that only one can stay on at a given time. How do I do that?
The manual says: "You can add several radio buttons grouped together once the Radio button is checked." but it doesn't tell how to do that
I can't find any option that looks like it would help with that. Did I overlook something?
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@gmaxey wrote:
Hi,
I have been doing some work with your com settings to print Word documents to PDF using PDFCreator. All has gone well until yesterday when I noticed that if I set the pdf save format to PDF1A (not tested but perhaps PDF1A and PDFX as well) vice simply PDF then any security settings I apply are simply ignored. E.g., if I set the option not to allow printing then I would expect that the pdf created couldn't be printed. Unfortunately it can be printed!!
Thinking it could be an issue with my code, I printed directly from your interface with the same settings and there also the security features I set were ignored.
Is this a bug, or by design. I am not that familiar with pdf formats, however, if this is by design (that PDFA1 can't have security features) then your software provides a false sense of security by showing the ability to set those features.
Please advise
.
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@lindenlauf wrote:
Edit: this is duplicate with http://forums.pdfforge.org/t/pdf-creator-window-keeps-opening-when-i-print-to-pdfcreator/10287
I'll try to ReInstall from scratch and report.Hi There,
I installed PDFCreator v2.5.1 Build 5. When printing a document, PDFCreator opens two windows:
(a) the print dialog (to choose title, profile etc) and
(b) the "main window" of the application (i.e. the window with the two buttons "application settings" and "profile settings").
After closing the print dialog, the main window remains open; if a second printjob is started then, the print dialog does not appear until the PDFCreator "main window" is closed manually and the application is re-opened again.
Why does PDFCreator opens the main window in addition to the print dialog window?
Why doesn't it react until this window is closed again?
It should not be necessary to close the PDFCreator "main window" after each print job manually...!Greetings from freiburg / Germany
Martin Lindenlauf
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@Tapyon wrote:
Hallo,
ich habe den pdf creator bisher in folgender Form genutzt:
wenn ich ein pdf drucke soll das pdf automatisch in einem ausgewählten Ordner abgelegt werden und als "neue Email" im Emailprogramm öffne. Dort ziehe ich es dann immer einfach per Drag and Drop heraus und mach was ich eben möchte.Ich nutze aktuell Version 2.5.1 Build 5 und ich bekomme obiges Vorgehen auch unter den Einstellungen geregelt. Was mich aber tierisch nervt ist, dass sich bei jedem Druck das Fenster öffnet "PDF Creator 2.5 ..........." mit einem Feld für "Anwendungseinstellungen" und eins für "Profileinstellungen". Ich habe bereits "Druckdialog überspringen" aktiviert. Aber das Fenster öffnet sich jedes Mal. Problem ist, dass es sich kurz öffnet und dann von meinem Email Fenster wieder überdeckt wird. Nun muss ich jedes mal das Fenster wieder heraussuchen und manuell schließen, da bei geöffnetem Fenster beim nächsten pdf druck (ich mach das öfters) der Druck nicht funktioniert. Erst wenn ich das Fenster wieder manuell schließe und nochmal drucke werden alle vorherigen Drucks mit durchgeschleust und alle Dokumente öffnen sich schlagartig im Email Browser.
Auch wenn es an sich nicht der Aufwand ist das Fenster zu schließen ist es doch sehr nervig und zuvor ging es ja auch.
Kann ich unterbinden, dass sich das Fenster öffnet? bzw. einstellen, dass es sich automatisch schließt?
VG
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@schlueter wrote:
Moin,
ich habe ein größeres Problem mit dem PDF Creator. Es ist so, dass wenn ich eine PDF aus z.B. Word oder Excel drucke, die Schriftart Arial nicht erkannt wird.
Zuerst war es so, dass die Schrift nicht Arial war sondern Helvetica. Diese verhalten konnte ich dem PDF Creator in der zwischenzeit durch einen anderen Beitrag abgewöhnen.
Ich habe also in den Druckereinstellungen auch bei Arial "nicht ersetzen" stehen.Leider bekomme ich trotzdem noch eine Fehlermeldung, wenn ich die PDF z.B. in Illustraitor oder Affinity Designer weiter bearbeiten möchte. Dabei erkennt er offensichtlich die Schrift Arial aber will diese trotzdem ersetzten.
Gleiches verhalten konnte ich auch an anderen Rechner nachstellen.Wenn ich den Adobe PDF verwende, tritt dieses Problem nicht auf.
Ich verwende die aktuelle Version 2.5.1. Diese habe ich gerade heute aktualisiert. Das Problem tritt nach wie vor auf.
Einstellungen im Drucker:
Hier die Fehlermeldung aus Affinity Designer:
Anbei noch die entsprechenden PDF aus den Tests.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Lennart Schlüter
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@JayV wrote:
I'm struggling with a Title Replacement filter using RegEx.
With End, Start, and Replace Types I can create search text and leave the box under "Replace with" blank to basically delete those Search text's from the title.
With a RegEx type I can create Search text but I can't leave "Replace with" blank.
For example, if my Search text is a RegEx type and contains [^\w] and the Replace with is an x then all non alpha-numeric and underscores are replaced with an x. Pretty much as expected. If Replace with is blank then nothing happens.
Am I misunderstanding how the RegEx type filters for Title Replacements should be used?
Thanks,
Jay
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@thomolar wrote:
Hello Support,
I bought a PDF Architect 4 - Professional Package package license on the 29th of March, 2016. I used it briefly on a laptop that has since crashed.
I am trying to use it on my new laptop now but I am getting a errors. Screenshots are attached here.
I sent help request on your Support Web Form last Friday but have not received any response since. I have again sent an email to support(at)pdfforge(dot)org with license details.Regards,
Oluyinka Thomas.
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@zerocool22 wrote:
Hello,
I accidently removed the pdfcreator from devices and printers on a windows server 2008. How do I get it back? I already reinstalled pdfcreator and restarted printspooler and restarted pdfcreator service. But it does not seem to come back?
How can I fix this?
(if possible without rebooting the server that would be great!)
Thanks!
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@wandy wrote:
I need to have PDFCreator on a Windows 2003 server (32bit). I know, it's discontinued, but still, there's that need.
Executing PDFCreator-2_5_1-Setup.exe on the server does... nothing! No messages, no task in task manager, nothing. I also tried the setup of v2.4.1 and v2.2.2. The same thing. Also, no messages in the Event Viewer. .Net from 2.0 up to 4.0 are installed.
Any ideas on what else to check?
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@andmattia wrote:
Is possibile to convert a word docx to pdf without word interop?
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