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you can use any mail program which supports MAPI.
Really no, we never say, that we can edit the content of a page of a PDF file.
No, not as MSI property.
The tray icon can currently be controlled via the registry.HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/PDFPrint
ShowTrayIcon = [0, 1]The key is in the user path and there is currently no possibility to disable the icon for all users.
Documents can be edited page-based, but you can't edit the content of a page. Page-based means rotate, add, move, delete, insert whole pages of a document.
You have to choose the directory when you save a file.
Ok, prüfen wir.
Hi, try to print the PDF first on the PDF printer to crate a new PDF file. Maybe the file is not 100% compatible and so you can try to create a new PDF when printing to the PDF printer first. Then use the newly create PDF file to extract the page. Hope that helps.
Hi, the pdf24.exe is not a foreground app. It must run in the background. The main purpose of this app is to redirect the print job to the right location and to open a front-end application like the assistant to do something with the newly printed file.
The pdf24.exe is necessary for the PDF printer. If the app is not running, then the PDF printer will not work. The app must be started in every user session, soo that the user can use the PDF printer.In best quality mode PDF24 does not influence the DPI values, PDF24 keeps the images as is.
Well, you can also provide a remote login so that I can analyse a bit. You can send the login as a private message or by email to forum@pdf24.org
Can you see the process environment variables of the pdf24.exe and can you post the variables here?
Normally other processes inherits the environment of the pdf24.exe and I think that the pdf24.exe also have the wrong process environment.
If so, we could find out why that is the case, maybe a wrong startup entry..
C:\Program Files (x86)\PDF24\gs\doc\Use.htm
In chapter 8.6 you can find how the temp folder is determined.
It uses the TMPDIR or TEMP environment variable.
Would it be possible to redefine this one in the code just before running gswin32c?
(you can create process environment variables instead of system variables)Valid parameters for Environment are PROCESS, SYSTEM, USER and VOLATILE.
source: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_data_environment.php
Hello,
thanks for the great analysis. You have said that the problem happens only on some systems. Do you know what the differences are between a working and a non-working system?
What happens if you close the pdf24.exe background process and if you restart the process manually? Does it then work?
I'll investigate your issue and I am trying to reproduce the problem. Please keep me updated if you know more. I'll update this topic if I know more.
Strange..
I've never heard of that before..Please ensure the the printer driver is always PDF24 PDF, even on the workstations with the restricted options.
What I can image is that the printer driver could not be installed correctly and that an alternative driver is used as fall back driver.
Please check that.
There is also an printer driver install log file in the install folder of the PDF24 Creator, name prnInstPDF. You can send me the file to forum@pdf24.org and then I can analyse a bit, why the PDF24 printer could not be installed.
Open the file with an reader and then print the file on the PDF24 PDF printer. This creates a PDF file. If auto conversion does not work, then the way with the printer will work in most cases, if you have a reader and if the reader can print the file.
The Editor works page-based. Delete pages, moves pages, add pages and things like that, but the editor can't edit the content of a page.
Hmm seems to me that this is a font problem. Can you send samples to forum@pdf24.org so that we can investigate the problem?
I think the problem is that you colleague does not have a reader installed which is needed to convert to dropped file.
In the background PDF24 uses the PDF printer to convert the files, but if no reader for that type of file is installed then PDF24 can't print the file on the PDF printer and conversion fails.
Some image files are supported without any other third party software. If you want to convert a Microsoft Word file to PDF then at least the Word Viewer is needed so that the file can be printed on the PDF printer.
If no Word file reader is installed on you system then conversion will fail. PDF24 does not install you readers for any type of file, that is nearly impossible. The PDF printer is the central element here which is used to convert and load a file. Then you only need a reader for that type of file and so you can load nearly every file.
Or just open the file in your reader, click print, choose the PDF24 PDF printer, print the file and that will do the same, you will get a PDF version of your file. Is a little bit more to do, but often works if the auto conversion fails.
Hi, do they only see PDF files or can't other files be loaded? If they see only PDF files then PDF24 has a feature to show only files. Showing all files can be activated via the main menu... "Show all files"
The auto conversion of documents simply prints some documents on the PDF printer to convert them to PDF.
PDF24 can't convert all documents out of the box, that would be fantastic, but there are a lot of documents, that would be very hard to realize.
The trick is to use the PDF printer to convert the documents. Normally the documents can be printed on a printer and if so the document can be converted to PDF. This way PDF24 does not need a reader for every document type. The reader can be installed by the user and if the reader can print a document then a PDF can be generated.
Out of the box PDF24 supports some image type, but that's all. In all other cases the PDF printer must be used and this can be greatly automated internally.
That's the reason why the printer is used.
The key is
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/PDFPrint
for x64 windows and
HKLM/SOFTWARE/PDFPrint
for x32 windows systems.The key UpdateMode controls the update behaviour.
Ok, nice feature, I have added this on to the TODO list, but I can't give you a date when that feature can be implemented. There are still some more issues in the list and we keep the list in mind when adding new features to the PDF24 Creator.
One point I wanted to know is why appending or prepending too a file is so interesting for you. Why do you don't save new files into a folder? Might the use case be also interesting for other people?
Did you notice that if the editor is open and you print a file that the file then is loaded into the editor?
Then you can do things like this:
Open the editor, print all files in order, click the merge icon and save the new file.Isn't that easy enough or what are your thoughts?
print and set A1 as paper size
Hi, please send a sample file to forum@pdf24.org so that I can test this issue.
Do you use the latest version 5.2?I can see your point, but we as software publisher would like to fix all bugs which exists in older releases. A lot of bugs were fixed with the last releases and sometime there are bugs which could cause data losses or other problems with regards to security. If you currently don't had problems with the software is no argument for the case that if you do something different than before that you than get data losses or other risky things caused by our software. As a company we are somewhere obligated to fix bugs and we are somewhere obligated to do our best to fix bugs and disabling some parts is our way to do that.
You could disable update checking and then you will never see some updates and nothing will be disabled. In that case we don't have a change to find new versions and we will never prompt for installing an update.
You can disables update checking in the settings of the app. This updates the update registry of the app in the HKLM area.
Hi, please update to the latest version 5.2. Versions above 4.9 fixed a lot of bugs and I think the latest version should solve your problem.
Hi, which version do you use? What watermark config do you use?
The coming PDF Creator 5.3 brings some new fixes for some GUI issues and some other odd side effects when importing files from scanner or camera.