Keith, I’ve experienced issues with V17.1 and printing to pdf. V17.1 64-bit, Windows 10, does not support PDF Creator. You must use Microsoft PDF, as you’ve done. V17.1 32-bit though seems to work fine with PDF Creator, in Win 10.
The issues I’ve had with V17.1 64-bit and Microsoft PDF, were related to images inside the pdf. In my case I’m printing radiology reports with includes multiple DICOM images (CT, X-Ray, MRI, etc). Those images are converted to JPEG/PNG before putting them into the report. That’s stuff that’s been working since V-12, but now fails in V17.1 64-bit. One thing I noticed was that when images were converted to JPEG, pdf printing failed all the time. Resulting PDF would not open. When images are converted to PNG, the resulting PDF seems fine, although a bit larger than expected. So, for now, I’m using PNG conversion. But this is not yet production, so no idea how that will behave in large scale. I’ve done only limited testing. I’ve reported that issue to 4D, and they’ve confirmed it, and opened a bug report: ACI0099344. So, I’m waiting for some solution in 17.2, I hope. Sorry for no being of help and just confirm your findings :-( cheers, julio > On Apr 1, 2019, at 12:10 AM, Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Hi all. > We are using 4D v17.1 on Windows Server 2056 Datacenter, and have made the > transition from PDFCreator to Microsoft Print to PDF. > > We have automated reports generating pdfs which are each attached to an email > to be sent out. > > What we are encountering is that while most pdfs are OK, on rare occasions > the pdf is bad and won’t open on either the local machine (stores a copy) or > from the sent email. > If that particular report is run again the pdf is fine, so the fault would > appear to be with Microsoft Print to PDF. > > We have tried adding a 5 second delay between the reports in case the printer > was being overwhelmed, but that has had no effect - the occasional bad one > still occurs. > > Has anyone else encountered this problem and, if so, have you managed to > determine what is causing the “bad” pdfs? > TIA, Keith > > -- Julio Carneiro jjfo...@gmail.com ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
