On Sep 12, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Kirk Brooks wrote: > Win10 has a native PDF print engine like MacOS does. You can use it. > I don't think PDFCreator 1.7 whatever will even run on Win10 (but you > probably found that out).
PDF Creator 1.7 works just fine on Windows 10. No problems. And it has many more configuration options than the built in Window 10 PDF driver. And it does not have a nuisance bug the Windows 10 driver has (see below). Now you have a choice. But you MUST use PDF Creator 1.7 version. Version 2.x or 3.x absolutely will not work with 4D. So when you install version 1.7 be sure to turn off “check for updates” otherwise your users will get nagged to update — and when they do you’ll get a call that PDF printing has stopped working. You have been warned. My advice is if you don’t need any of the configuration options of PDF Creator, dump it and go with the Windows 10 PDF driver so there is nothing to install. Also be aware that PDFs created by the Windows 10 PDF driver are much larger than the exact same PDF created on macOS or with PDF Creator. macOS makes the smallest PDFs of all 3. So if size matters, avoid Windows 10 PDF driver. One critical issue/bug with the Windows 10 PDF driver is that it will fail to work if there is a comma “,” anywhere in the file path — folder name or file name — of where to save the PDF. Verified, confirmed and a big PITA for many as can be seen on the web via Google search. Hope Microsoft will fix this someday. Example: you have a folder with the name “Nevels, Tim” that contains documents for me. Impossible to use Windows 10 PDF driver to create a PDF inside this folder. The comma kills it. And yes, commas are totally valid characters in file names and folder names on Windows and macOS. The workaround I implemented was to check the file path and if there is a comma, create the PDF in a temp directory on the drive first. Once the PDF is created, use MOVE DOCUMENT to place it in the “Nevels, Tim” folder. MOVE DOCUMENT has no problem with comma’s in file paths. As you can probably guess I’ve done way too much PDF creation work using all 3 of these solutions. Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
