Hide the PDF24 Creator assistant when printing from Siemens WinCC

[ajres]

Dear colleagues,

I am using a SCADA WINCC SIEMENS, and when i want to execute a report with PDF24 creator, the pdf24 creator wizard opens.

Could be possible to hide this wizard???

THanks in advance,

[Stefan Ziegler]

You can configure the PDF printer so that it saved automatically. Then this UI would not pop up. I think it's a good advice to install a new PDF printer for that because here and there the default PDF printer is used internally for conversion to PDF. You can add a new PDF printer via the settings UI.

[ajres]

Please, Could you recommend me how to configure it so that it does not come out? My current configuration is as follows.

[PDF24 Support]

Hello,

you can do this with a separate PDF24 printer that saves automatically. Then PDF24 shows no window, and WinCC only has to print the report to this printer.

1. Click » Settings at the bottom of the PDF24 Assistant and open PDF Printer. If WinCC runs under a different Windows account than yours (your screenshot shows a service account), click Run as administrator first, so the settings apply to all users.
2. Click Install a PDF printer and add a printer, for example "PDF24 WinCC". Select it in the list.
3. Under PDF Printer Tool choose Automatically save documents after printed.
4. Under Auto Save set the Output Directory, e.g. C:\Reports, and the Filename, e.g. WinCC %Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S (date and time of printing). Leave Use a file name chooser before saving the file switched off, and switch off Show progress while saving if you don't want to see a progress window.
5. Save the settings and select the new printer as the printer for your report in WinCC.

We recommend a separate printer instead of changing the default "PDF24" printer, because PDF24 itself also uses the default printer internally in some cases.

More about the PDF printers in the manual: https://creator.pdf24.org/manual/11/#6-pdf-printers

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