Hi Gurus,

I recently downloaded PDFCreator and can't get it
to do a damn thing. It seems to process only .ps
files. I clicked on the window and selected All
Files. I selected a JPG file but it did not appear.

I tried dragging various image formats onto the
Print Monitor but again nothing happened. I
followed the instructions for drag/drop etc but
everything was useless. I do have PDFCreator set
as the default printer but that does nothing.

My MP170 scanner's MP Navigator scanned the images
and then I converted all into a single PDF file
but the images needed editing and there seems to
be no way to do it in advance. Once the images are
scanned into MP Navigator they can only be saved
as images or converted to PDFs - no editing
opportunity.

Right now I have 9 edited JPG images and I want to
convert all into a single PDF file. Help appreciated.

TIA

From: "RF" <RF@NoDen.con>

| Hi Gurus,

| I recently downloaded PDFCreator and can't get it
| to do a damn thing. It seems to process only .ps
| files. I clicked on the window and selected All
| Files. I selected a JPG file but it did not appear.

| I tried dragging various image formats onto the
| Print Monitor but again nothing happened. I
| followed the instructions for drag/drop etc but
| everything was useless. I do have PDFCreator set
| as the default printer but that does nothing.

| My MP170 scanner's MP Navigator scanned the images
| and then I converted all into a single PDF file
| but the images needed editing and there seems to
| be no way to do it in advance. Once the images are
| scanned into MP Navigator they can only be saved
| as images or converted to PDFs - no editing
| opportunity.

| Right now I have 9 edited JPG images and I want to
| convert all into a single PDF file. Help appreciated.

| TIA

Go to the PDFCreator - PDF Print monitor.

Choose "Printer Stop" from the toolbar.

Go to you favourite JPEG viewer/editor and load the various JPEGs.

From your favourite JPEG viewer/editor choose the PDFCreator as you printer.

Print all of the loaded JPEGs to the PDFCreator.

In the PDF Print monitor, highlight all the waiting jobs.

Then choose; document --> combine

In the bottom corner of the PDFCreator - PDF Print monitor, you will see an incrementing
percent of completion.
When it reaches 100% you will have just one waiting job in the PDF Print monitor.

Again, choose "Printer Stop" from the PDF Print monitor toolbar.

Complete the dialogue box as needed and then choose "Save".

Give the save dialogue a location and file name. That file will have all the JPEGs
combined into the PDF file.


--
Dave
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:13:55 -0500, RF <RF@noden.con> wrote:

doPDF does this easily, though I would use something like photofiltre to
create one jpg, then simply use doPDF virtual printer to /print/ the pdf.

http://www.dopdf.com/

"doPDF6.1 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a
successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To
convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf
converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any
other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to
save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically
opened in your default PDF viewer."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHETI3K-t3E

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David H. Lipman wrote:
Thank you David for the detailed instructions.

First I tried Irfanview but it didn't seem to work
very well. Then I opened PhotoFiltre and it was
just great. I set "Printer Stop" from the
toolbar,loaded all 9 pages into
PhotoFiltre and started the printing one by one.
The PDFCreator Printer window (part of Win2K)
showed all the files and they appeared to be
processed one by one - or at least they
disappeared one by one.

However, none appeared in the PDFCreator Print
Monitor.

The following is a chunk of data from the creator
logfile.

6/30/2008 3:51:49 PM: PDFCreator Program Start
6/30/2008 3:51:49 PM: Windowsversion: Windows 2000
5.0 Build 2195 (Service Pack 4) [Win2000
Win2000Workstation]
6/30/2008 3:51:49 PM: UseINI: False
6/30/2008 3:51:49 PM: InstalledAsServer: False
6/30/2008 3:51:49 PM: MyAppData: D:\Documents and
Settings\v\Application Data
6/30/2008 3:52:41 PM: PDFCreator Program Start
6/30/2008 3:52:41 PM: Windowsversion: Windows 2000
5.0 Build 2195 (Service Pack 4) [Win2000
Win2000Workstation]
6/30/2008 3:52:41 PM: UseINI: False
6/30/2008 3:52:41 PM: InstalledAsServer: False
6/30/2008 3:52:41 PM: MyAppData: D:\Documents and
Settings\v\Application Data

Does the ini file need setting up?

Thanks again.

Bear Bottoms wrote:
Many thanks BB.

I'll give David's suggestion a try first, since it
is the route I was trying to follow.
If I don't succeed, yours will be next.

Thanks again.

From: "RF" <RF@NoDen.con>


| Thank you David for the detailed instructions.

| First I tried Irfanview but it didn't seem to work
| very well. Then I opened PhotoFiltre and it was
| just great. I set "Printer Stop" from the
| toolbar,loaded all 9 pages into
| PhotoFiltre and started the printing one by one.
| The PDFCreator Printer window (part of Win2K)
| showed all the files and they appeared to be
| processed one by one - or at least they
| disappeared one by one.

| However, none appeared in the PDFCreator Print
| Monitor.

< snip >

| Does the ini file need setting up?

| Thanks again.

The INI does not need editing.

You said "However, none appeared in the PDFCreator Print Monitor."

This is indicative of you NOT choosing PDFCreator as the printer in your graphics program.

Just like Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator creates a print-driver that allows you you to print
the output of *any* program and "print" to a PDF file. All you have to do is choose the
"PDFCreator" printer as the device you want to print to instead of a physical printer such
as a HP LaserJet.

When you 'Choose "Printer Stop" from the toolbar' all printing to PDF files stop and the
jobs accumulate in the Print Monitor. Then you can combine them into one job. Actually
what is happening is they are combined into one PostScript file.

--
Dave
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From: "RF" <RF@NoDen.con>

ADDENDUM

I actually performed this (albeit on WinXP but I have done the same under Win2K and Vista)
as I created the steps to follow such that I could give you an accurate set of
instructions.

I am sorry if I failed to word the instructions well enough for you to follow the first
time around.


--
Dave
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David H. Lipman wrote:
OK good.

Correct.

First, I have printers Canon---, winfax, Print to
File, and PDFCreator, which is marked as the default.

In PhotoFiltre I click Print and a window opens.
There is a button on it with Setup. I click on
that and the Setup window opens with printer name
PDFCreator. I click ok and the window closes. The
window with the Setup button has a Print button
and, when I click that, I get the message Spooling
Data and the PDFCreator Print window (a win2k
window) shows the file I sent. It disappears
within about 15-20 secs.

I opened that PDFCreator Print window and looked
at Printer | Properties. It shows the port at
PDFC, and the Device Settings show the driver as
PDFCreator.

That makes sense.

Thanks for the info. Do you know where the
processed files go? I know with Print to a File
because I can specify the location. With
PDFCreator, I can't see any such facility.

Thanks again for your support.

From: "RF" <RF@NoDen.con>

< snip >

| Thanks for the info. Do you know where the
| processed files go? I know with Print to a File
| because I can specify the location. With
| PDFCreator, I can't see any such facility.

| Thanks again for your support.

No, sorry :-(

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RF wrote:
I don't see any info about forming a PDF with
multiple pages.
Is this prog for single pages or more?

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:35:20 -0500, RF <RF@noden.con> wrote:

Tis why I said combine your jpg's into one jpg file in Photofiltre the way
you want it to look and then print it using the virtual pdf printer. I
would set a blank file in Photofiltre the size I wanted and copy/paste the
jpg's into that...then print the pdf.

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Bear Bottoms wrote:
Thanks BB. Now I get it. I have combined files
there quite often.
Great job. :-)

RF wrote:

They go where you tell them.
When you 'print' with PDFCreator as your printer, you get a pop up
window, giving you the name of the 'Document title', plus 'creation
date' and some other pre-filled fields. clicking 'Save' (bottom right)
brings up the windows explorer navigation box (at least on Windows)- and
you choose where the processed .pdf ends up.

occam wrote:
Thank you occam.

Anytime I tried to print with that prog, nothing
ever happened. No file
ever showed up in the print monitor.

For example, I went to Printer | Options and a
window opened with Print Test Page.
I clicked on that button and a test page appeared
in the print monitor. I clicked the Save button on
the title page. It did give me a choice of where
to save it and, finally, the test page shot open.

Next I opened Notepad with a half page of text and
clicked Print. A window opened showing that the
PDF Creator printer was set as the default. Then I
clicked Print. All that happened was that the
Print test Page popped up again. This time I
selected PDF
from the list and hit save. The same old test page
opened. Nothing ever appeared in the print monitor
except the test page.

If I try to add a document to PDFCreator, all it
seems to expect is the .ps format.

By comparison, the dinky doPDF works very well.
The only disadvantage is having to attach the
images before converting to PDF. That's a bit more
laborius than dragging the pages into a prog but
at least it works.

RF wrote:
I assembled 5 JPGs in PhotoFiltre and they crashed
when I tried to add the 6th one.
The error message vanished quickly and I could not
read it. The first assembly was wiped out.

Next attempt was to assemble 5 and save them. Then
I assembled the remaining 4 and saved them.
Finally, I tried to join both and I had a messsage
Not Enough Storage.
It can't have been the memory because I have 2 GB.
I guess PhotoFiltre may not be able to handle it.
The 9 images took 13 MB of space. Any other
possibilities?

I then took both groups to IrfanView and made a
panorama view, which worked great.

Thanks again BB and DHL.

RF wrote:
OK, I think the problem may your default 'save format' - this should be
set to PDF (other options are PNG, JPG, TIFF, PS, EPS, BMP, etc)

Run PDFCreator. Select 'Printer' > 'Options' > 'Save' (on left hand
side). Here there is a menu of the different file types that can be set
as 'default'. is this already 'PDF'? (It was not in my case.)

Hope this works.

occam wrote:
Thanks again O.

This is what I have: PDFCreator Version 0.9.5
(December 24, 2007)
The Options list has formats: PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP,
PCX, TIFF, PS and EPS

I just made another attempt. In the Options list I
clicked PDF, then I clicked the Save button and
closed the options window. Next I clicked on
Document in PDFCreator Print Monitor. A window
opened and I clicked Add. A search window opens
but, at the Files Type, .ps showed. I select All
Files and look for a JPEG file. I select it but it
does not appear in the print monitor. It seems to
me that this prog is for .ps files, which I have
no interest in. If I had one, I'd try it out.
Maybe I downloaded the wrong version.

Still, the best way to format and convert this task correctly would have
been to use the wait/combine scheme in pdfCreator.

RF wrote:
No, you have the latest version of PDF Creator.

No, the program is not only for .ps, it also works the way you describe
for word, excel, etc.

However, you are correct. It does not appear to work for .jpeg.

RF - your objective is to create .PDFs from .JPG? What image viewer do
you use? I use something called Faststone Image viewer
(free, available here http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm)

In Faststone, when you open an image, you can 'save as' to PDF directly,
without the need of the intermediary PDFCreator. I believe this facility
is also available in IrfanView also (another freeware image program).

Regards

On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:14:51 +0200 'occam'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

blimey you're right :-) ...just tried it and it worked fine.
I never knew that about Irfanview.


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