I installed PDFCreator under Vista and figured out it's the PDFSpooler component that appears to be the problem.
The reason some of us are using PDFCreator is that the other common way of generating PDF's involves a setup procedure which uses Redmon (a port redirector) & Ghostscript. See here: <a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html" title="tamu.edu">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPS<nobr>p<wbr></nobr> rinter.html</a tamu.edu> But Redmon doesn't work under Vista.
When I examined the printer port settings for PDFCreator I discovered that it is also a port redirector (redirecting to its Spooler). While for reasons I don't understand Vista won't allow you to change the PDFCreator port configuration, I was able to use Regedit to locate and change the PDFCreator configuration key. In short, I changed PDFCreator to redirect to Ghostscript using the configuration settings for Redmon. Note: Locate the PDFCreator key by searching in your registry for "PDFCreator Redirected Port".
The only difference in the way this functions under Vista vs XP is that the filename dialog pops up on the service desktop (new in Vista).
All you'll have to do when the Vista version of PDFCreator comes out is to uninstall the current version and reinstall the new one. If the install script works properly the registry keys will be deleted and recreated.
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Re:PDFCreator under Vista
Posted by: rhfritz on January 21, 2007 11:03 AMThe reason some of us are using PDFCreator is that the other common way of generating PDF's involves a setup procedure which uses Redmon (a port redirector) & Ghostscript. See here: <a href="http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html" title="tamu.edu">http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPS<nobr>p<wbr></nobr> rinter.html</a tamu.edu>
But Redmon doesn't work under Vista.
When I examined the printer port settings for PDFCreator I discovered that it is also a port redirector (redirecting to its Spooler). While for reasons I don't understand Vista won't allow you to change the PDFCreator port configuration, I was able to use Regedit to locate and change the PDFCreator configuration key.
In short, I changed PDFCreator to redirect to Ghostscript using the configuration settings for Redmon.
Note: Locate the PDFCreator key by searching in your registry for "PDFCreator Redirected Port".
The only difference in the way this functions under Vista vs XP is that the filename dialog pops up on the service desktop (new in Vista).
All you'll have to do when the Vista version of PDFCreator comes out is to uninstall the current version and reinstall the new one. If the install script works properly the registry keys will be deleted and recreated.
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