perhaps the pdf-creator you called does not run without console option (in a daemon) ?

Hi ulrich,

thank you for the reply.

Is there a way to see if the pdf-creator can run without console?

We run pdf-creator 1.4.1 on the windows server.

Do you know a PDF-creator that can run without console?

Best regards,

Anne

Hi Anne,

it's just some speculation drawn from experiences some 15 years ago with another product.

As long as we run it straight from uniface in dialog mode, it works as expected.

When it was put in a user-independend background process (no console/no keyboard) it failed.

Think they solved it by starting a user-related process to do the conversion rather than a background one.

So if you can modify the fire-daemon line ??

Sorry, no notes on that any more, just the bits kept in a nearly 60yrs old brain.

Hi Ulrich,

thank you, did some further search and the pdf we use should work without console.

I keep on looking.

Best regards,

Anne

Hi,

are you sure, that you uniface process is working correct (maybe some proc-profiling).

Do you get any error-msg or just hang?

One we had the problem, that an update msg from pdf-printer occurs (msg: there is a new version, do you want to update)

We disable this msg and then it works, but I am not sure, if it was pdf-creator or pdf-printer.

Best regards

Thomas

P.S. other point can be: do you use logical printer (registry?) or do you use default printer (is it set?)

Hi Anne,

thanks for this additional info; is it OK if i put it to uniface.info or will you do it?

Perhaps you can use the following tip:
uniface creates the name of the output file from the $formtitle information,
so we use to add in our report a line like:
$formtitle = "%%customerId%%%-%%InvoiceNo%%%"

Hi Ulrich,

You mentioned console so i went looking on that one.

I noticed that the pdf we use has the functionality to run in batch

Then i went to the installation directory of PDF (I didn’t do the installation myself)

Here I found an application PDFCreator

I started this up

In the menu via printer I started options

There was under program the choice Auto-save

This opens a screen with parameters for the autosave function

I filled them in and then it worked.

Now I’m going to try that I can give this option as file-name and path as a parameter via Uniface to the pdf-creator.

If you use redmon-pdf printer , it is possible to act as inactive-printer with asking for filename and as non-interactive printer, which reads the pdf-filename from a parameter-file.( c:\\tmp\\pcb_pdf.par) 

Printer definitions for : noninteractive printer ( it should be possible with ghostscript version 9 )

printerport definition:   C:\\Programme\\gstools\\gs8.00\\bin\\gswin32c.exe

printerport argument :

@c:\\tmp\\pcb_pdf.par -IC:\\Programme\\gstools\\gs8.00\\lib;c:\\programme\\gstools\\fonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dBATCH -r720 -c save pop .setpdfwrite -f -

Install Redmond PDF ( is working with Version 9 too),  the filename will be loaded from the file c:\\tmp\\pcb_pdf.par ( filedump).

Complete argument for the gswin32c.exe :

@c:\\tmp\\pcb_pdf.par -IC:\\Programme\\gstools\\gs8.00\\lib;c:\\programme\\gstools\\fonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dBATCH -r720 -c save pop .setpdfwrite -f -