$owner for "save with the following user"

[sam85]

Hi,

is it possible to use the $owner variable for the "save with the following user" field?

The user has pdf24 installed but the printer was deployed by the printer-server. Just for the case to give the pdf a password.

Thanks a lot

Sam

[Stefan Ziegler]

yes, $owner stores the user name (owner of the print job). In case of shared printers, I currently do not know whether Windows keeps the original user name or whether Windows assigns a new one when the print job is transmitted to the receiving machine.

[sam85]

I see, just tried to use $owner in the field, but no dialog pops out. But if I type in the user on the server, the dialog pops out.

[sam85]

$owner is doing nothing if i start a print job from the client..not even on the server. if i use the logged in user on the server the dialog pops out on the server instead of the client.

[sam85]

$owner is doing nothing if i start a print job from the client..not even on the server. if i use the logged in user on the server the dialog pops out on the server instead of the client.

[Stefan Ziegler]

If a PDF printer is shared and used by clients, then using dialogs will not work. he only thing that works here is to use the auto save feature for a pdf printer to save the file into a special folder where the client user has access to.

[sam85]

yea, $owner for the path for example. i am doing this with success. but if i want to place a passwort by dialog that is impossible atm i guess?

[Stefan Ziegler]

yes, that is not possible, because the print job is on the server and not on the client and normally only the server has installed the pdf24 app and the client only has the shared printer.

[sam85]

so if i use a shared printer from the server and have a local pdf24 instance installed, that doesn't work with $owner as a user for any dialog, because the shared printer doesn't take any service from the local instance?

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