PDFCreator 0.9.9 released

I have not had a chance to download and test yet.  Do you know if you all we able to fix the page numbering issue with total page numbers in Excel

As mentioned in

"Excel Page Numbering and Margins Issue and New Release?"

http://en.pdfforge.org/forum/open-discussion/4719-excel-page-numbering-a...

thanks

Alan

I just downloaded version 0.9.9 and everything broke.  When I tried to run PDFCreator after the upgrade, it acted as though it were printing to a printer and no PDF was created.

So I thought I'd uninstall PDFCreator and start over.  Nope.  The uninstall isn't clean.  It leaves a gsdll32.dll file in the PDF folder.  I can't delete it.  And the new install can't overwrite it.

So I'm stuck without a working PDFCreator!  Can you help.

Great!

Hello,

please try rebooting between the uninstalls. If that alone does not work, please follow this FAQ entry to override that PDFCreator is already installed:

http://en.pdfforge.org/content/setup-error-pdfcreator-already-installed

kind regards,

Philip

0.9.9 does not work for me, revert to 0.9.8

I happily used 0.9.8 for more than a year. Today 5 jan PDFCreator signaled me that version 0.9.9 was available.

So I uninstall 0.9.8

Then successfully(so said) 0.9.9

Now when I print a MS-Word 2000 document version 0.9.9 ask for name, location, I see the tiny pages icon on right corner as if printing but no file is created! To check I search my all HDD.

OS: Win98SE

MS-Office 2000

If you need further technical info I can post Belarc Advisor info (CPU, packages...)

Hello,

0.9.9 seems to ignore the /UseINI switch and uses the Registry. I've tested this more than once on XPSP3. Anyone else with this problem?

Sorry, the old ini-mode is not supported anymore. This has something to do with the new profiles feature.

v0.9.9 works fine for me in Server mode - thanks for the cool new feature to allow multiple printers and profiles. It works better than v0.9.8 on Win Server 2003 because it's no longer needed to make an exception to Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for PDFCreator.

However, a second problem still remains: if nobody is logged into the server locally, no PDF file will be created until someone logs in!

looks like the Excel total page number issue was not fixed.

6 page Excel file, when I print it to a printer it says "6 total pages" When i print to PDFCreator it says 12 total pages.

Hi,

I really like this soft that I use for several years.

I have a bug to report. I suppose it's not the right place to do it, but I don't know this right place ;-)

I use the PDF/A option to create long term pdf from word documents, and I have one document in witch the pdf opens with a warning that it was not able to open or create the LucidaSans font (even though Word recognize it): as a result all the characters in this font are not printed.

I installed the 9.0.9 release but it was not fixed.

Can you help me?

Regards

Lot of crashes while using profiles... while using water marks...

Hope it will be corrected soon

I installed version 0.9.9 and it looked OK.  I got the print popup and selected PDFCreator and nothing happened.

I uninstalled it (again).  But it leaves a remnant in the program folder and I can't delete it.

How do I totally remove it?

I've setuped 0.9.9 and there is no Russian language. 0.9.8 has Russian.

Hi, I'm Slovenian translator since version 0.8.1 RC6 but unfortunately didn't receive any notification about releasing 0.9.9 version as for previous versions. For years I checked this forum regularly but now even a few months can pass between my visits. So I missed it online too. I was sad and happy at the same time when PDFcreator notify me about new version. Glad because of success of this great program but sad because of lack in Slovenian translation in program itself and even in setup.

Now I updated my translation but unfortunately didn't find any link to upload it. Please let me know where is it. Will the version 0.9.9 be updated with missed translation(s)?

What I found that this link is broken on the end of translations page: http://en.pdfforge.org/node/72

I found this thread about the culprit just now. Other "missed" translators should be contacted also. It is important that such a good program maintain good community including translators.

Thanks Philip, other authors, translators and contributors for great program. Be well,

Filip.

 will it work with MS Office 2010?

The previous version (0.9.8) generated a blank pdf from any MS Office 2010 product. :/

PDFCreator is very very good, but where RUSSIAN language in ver.0.9.9??

Is this version of PDFCreator can set the print presets properties of the pdf files like page scaling, duplex mode, paper source by page size ??

Can you tell me what is fixed in 0.9.9., s.a. "Fixed some minor bugs".?

Greatings and a happy new year,

Johan

Hi Philip,

I'm having some trouble with PDFCreator 0.9.9 under Windows Vista. The problem seems to be related to inconsistencies in the location of temp folders, and is Vista-specific. I don't encounter any trouble when running the same operations with the same version of PDFCreator on an XP machine.

Initially I found PDFCreator putting its temp files for spooling in "C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Temp\PDFCreatorSpool" - not a good place for temp files under Vista. It turned out that when I uninstalled the previous version of PDFCreator, I needed to say "yes" when it asked whether to remove all the previous settings. It had left an old setting in the registry which was pointing to this temp folder under "C:\Program Files". This had led to a problem that I've seen reported by someone else, where print jobs would correctly show up in the PDF Print Monitor's queue, and would successfully be processed, but could never be deleted. They'd just continue to accumulate, PDFCreator would run over and over again trying to process them, and the only way to close PDFCreator was by terminating it from the Task Manager.

After uninstalling PDFCreator, letting it remove all settings, and reinstalling, this particular problem was resolved. Now the temp files for spooling show up in a better place, at C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\PDFCreatorSpool

I had hoped that this would resolve all the problems, but the following symptoms remain:

1) When I print to PDFCreator, the PDFCreator program fails to start automatically. The spooler files do appear as expected in C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\PDFCreatorSpool. One odd thing that may be related to the failure is that a "PDFCreator\Temp" folder appears in "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files". This would indicate that PDFCreator is still trying to put a temp folder under "C:\Program Files\PDFCreator". Maybe some PDFCreator process is failing to check the registry for the correct temp folder location.

2) In order to proceed with the print job I can start PDFCreator manually. But when I do this it doesn't show the document in the queue. And if the "PDFCreator\Temp" folder in VirtualStore has been previously removed, it reappears. So here again some PDFCreator process is trying to put a temp folder in the wrong place. Maybe the reason it doesn't show the document in the queue is that it isn't looking in C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\PDFCreatorSpool, where the registry setting would tell it to look.

3) Finally, if I close PDFCreator and this time restart it with admin privileges, it now correctly shows the document in the queue and successfully processes it. This time nothing new shows up in VirtualStore. So when running as admin, the correct temp folder location is retrieved from the registry and used.

So I can now get PDFCreator to work, but it's not functioning as intended - lots of manual intervention is required. Any ideas on how to get it to start automatically as it does under XP, and function correctly without admin privileges?

Allan J.

Hey, I think it's entirely solved now! I found that the Vista registry also has a "VirtualStore".

At "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PDFCreator" it was still holding onto all the old settings. This included the bad temp folder location "C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Temp".

Apparently these registry settings are the ones that Vista was making available to PDFCreator when it wasn't running with admin privileges. After deleting the entire PDFCreator key from this VirtualStore, PDFCreator now starts automatically and processes its print jobs as intended. The spurious PDFCreator folder that kept appearing under "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files" now seems to be permanently gone.

Allan

Hi,
Japanese 0.9.9 localization has finished as following:
japanese.ini with UTF-8, CR+LF

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYJLmXnNLyHbZGhuNDRiY3FfNTNkZGR2eDloaw...

masa_36

I am using PDF Creator 0.9.8 from Word and Outlook VBA Makros. In the past I was facing the cClose Bug, what should be fixed with the new version. But the new version made it even worse. No problems anymore with tasks that stuck, but now PDF documents are NOT generated and saved. My code works fine with 0.9.8, using the same code 0.9.9 does not generate the PDF everytime. One time it works the other time not. Most of the time not. As I read above I am not the only one with this issue.

I am really looking forward to the next release. Many thanks for this great tool.

Since the old ini-mode is no longer supported is there a way to install with a pre-made profile instead of the default one, or perhaps an automated way to add more printers?  

@snofriacus

How did you install and uninstall this? to get it to install correctly using the right Temp dir.

I had the same permissions problem. Then PDFFORGE required me to uninstall the old one before I could upgrade.

When I did upgrade, it was again trying to save it to the temp directory under its program directory, and the previous directorys were uninstalled because I had to change the permissions again with this instalation. 

This allows me to finish printing the job, but since the main window clears out the queue, it has to be started up again for each print job. 

I messed around with some of the settings in the registry that seemed like they might have an effect. Namely, the UpdateInterval, PrinterTemppath, UseAutosave, UseAutosaveDirectory, etc. Did not resolve the issue.

I am using Windows 7 with PDFCreator 0.9.9

>Since the old ini-mode is no longer supported is there a way to install with a
>pre-made profile instead of the default one ....

The setup exe knows the parameter /RegFile. (/REGFile=<REGFile> - use an own registry-file)
PDFCreator-0_9_9_setup.exe /RegFile=C:\MyRegFile.reg

>.... or perhaps an automated way to add more printers?

The PDFCreator.exe knows the parameter /INSTALLPRINTER.
PDFCreator.exe /INSTALLPRINTER=PDFPrinter2 /NoStart

>Japanese 0.9.9 localization has finished as following:
>japanese.ini with UTF-8, CR+LF

VB6 has some restrictions. We need an ANSI file. And send it please to info@pdfforge.org

I used the /ForceInstall and it worked.  Thanks!

I did get an error message when I printed a web page.  I saved the error message, but I don't know where it's stored.  It was something about a startup error.  It did eventually print though.

I am running Win7 Eval copy and had 0.9.5 installed. All was working well with this version until today so I installed 0.9.9 and now nothing is working. I do not get any indication of a PDF file creation. I will uninstall 0.9.9 and reinstall 0.9.5 until a fix is posted.

==================================================

I am now running Win 7 Ultimate final version and still have a problem with all versions of PDFCreator. It will not go to the create PDF screens. Are you working on a fix? In the meantime, I am using CutePDF until this problem is resolved.

Of course I should have looked at the size, but now with the recession those of us who are left have to do two people's jobs, so there is not a lot of time to be careful about things. I downloaded and installed Ghostscript before installing PDFCreator, only to find that the PDFCreator installation file already includes (most of) Ghostscript already.  It would have been nice if someone had said so on the download page.....

And a related question is: are any registry conflicts created by this double installation of Ghostscript (especially with regard to uninstalling one or the other)?  Of course (again) I should look for myself, but chasing around a Windows system looking for various conflicts is a time consuming process that is now a luxury when there's only half the number of hours to do it in.  Thanks for any clues.

It seems that the 0.9.9 version removed the "Directories" parameter in the options. Because of that it is impossible to change the temporary directory.

I am using Windows 7 (user mode) and I had to give write permissions to the users for the "C:\Windows\Temp" folder. I installed the 0.9.8 version and it did not have that problem.

Is it something that the developers wanted ? Anyway, thanks for this great soft !

I need some help. I downloaded the lastest version and all it will do is print my Excel document.  ????

No, it cannot print Excel documents......

Yes, when give the order to print a document, it will convert this document to PDF

What where you expecting it would do (more)?

And, why doe you think that it does not work (for you) ?

I installed PDFCreator version 0.9.9.  It worked a couple of times and then stops.  This keeps happening and I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice.  I'm on Vista64.  I'm getting this error when I try to create a PDF:

Error-Nr:  481 (Invalid Picture)

Modul:  modMain

Procedure:  StartProgram

Line:  51700

I'm not trying to do anything but create PDFs.  Please help me Philip!

>Error-Nr:  481 (Invalid Picture)
This happens only if UAC is enabled and you try to create a pdf from IE. Start another program like notepad and let it open. Go back to your open IE and try it again. This is fixed in version 1.0. If you like to get a test version send me an email.

Wow Frank!  That worked.  I had to clear the error before it did (silly me).  But then it displayed the print spooler and I was able to save all the PDFs for the last couple of weeks.  99% of my PDFs are from  IE.

Thanks!

Sorry for late reply in this topic, I"d like to re-send the file as follows:

http://masa36.typepad.jp/files/japanese_ini_sjis.txt

If inadequate or not proper, feel free to contact me to fix them. I hope this 0.9.9 in the 'Translation' list in this site. Thanks.

Previous 0.9.3 which I were using had problems with remembering sheet format (A4, A5, A0) with cooperation with AutoCad 2000. Now this is fixed.

But still sad that PDF can't create properly PDF doc when password is choosed and password field leaved empty. I think it should just create pdf without password.

Frank, can you please send me also this 1.0 version? I would like to test it also.

Regards,

Tempo

I would also really like to try out ver 1.0 as it would be very beneficial to my business.

Thanks so much,

This is such a great product. Keep up the good work!

Hi Philip, i follow others with a magical question:

When where v1.0 will be released?

And an other question more "personal": will it packaged as a msi package?

Thanks a lot for all this good job

niju

Any chance, that I can get a test version of 1.0.

I am very often experiencing, that printing to PDFCreator 0.99 stops working, and nothing at all happens when I print. I want to test, if that is working better in 1.0.

--
Morten Christensen

Hello,

Please, can someone help me ?
I get an error 481 in the modMain module, procedure StartProgram at line 51700 (PDFCreator 0.9.9) when I try to print document with Word 2007 or Excel 2007 under Windows 7 64 bit edition.

If I try to print one document with NotePad, the PDF is OK.

If I try to print again this document with NotePad, but Word or Excel are running in background, the print procedure fail and I get an error 481.

Do you have an idea ?

Thanks

PDFCreator v.0.9.9 russian ini

webfile.ru/4402034

Hi Frank,

Can I by any chance get the test version 1.0 too ?

I Installed PDFCreator 0.9.9 on a windows 7 (x86) and I would like to share that printer with other computers on windows 7 (x64).  But I have a problem with the  x64 printer drivers not missing from PDFCreator.

I read on one of your posts that this is resolved on the version 1.0.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

I am very glad that you guys have now released the PDF creator 0.9.9. I have been waiting for the release of this version of PDF creator for quite some time. I was very eager and I checked on a daily basis in the internet to see if it was already released and now it has. After using it, I have to say that this is the best PDF creator so far and what I think the major change is because of the two major content solutions features that are described above.

Hi Philip,

  I am using the latest version of pdf creater. I using this pdf creater for a client based application. I want to know is it independ of client OS. I need to provide a solution which is suppose to work on Windows as well as Other O.S. like Mac, Linux.

Is this pdf creater going to independ of the OS or not?

Ravi Shan ker