Network/Server PDF Printer

I would like to create pdf documents from any device on the network that can print to a network printer. Essentially, I'd like to create a print que on the server to capture print jobs and store them on the server rather than print them. Any ideas of how to accomplish this?

Maybe you could try CUPS-PDF https://bitbucket.org/codepoet/cups-pdf-for-mac-os-x/wiki/Home
Install it on the server then share the printer and the PDF output folder?

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Hi Peter,
I can only find a printer folder under Control Panel > Printers. This is where I've already changed the PDF Printer defaults without success. Oddly, I appear to have fixed it by renaming the print driver instance there to "Adobe PDFx" (probably any other name would also work).
Whilst troubleshooting, I found I could also see another network "Adobe PDF printer" on another machine. I had a look over the settings there and saw the option "render print job on client machine". This got me thinking I might NOT have been using the LOCAL PDF printer setup and was just fooling myself.
I changed the local PDF Printer name to be certain I could identify it correctly and Hey Presto!, it suddenly started accepting the preset changes. I changed it back to "Adobe PDF" and it reverted back to the "standard" settings and just ignores everything.
It may be a weird Vista 64 security thing, this OS does some very annoying things when trying to access stuff, even though I have master admin privileges.
I'll simply leave the printer name as "PDFx" for now as this is getting the job done.
Thanks for your suggestions.

Windows Server 2008R2 running Remote Desktop Services reports printer process does not exist when installing PDF printer

Windows Server 2008R2 running Remote Desktop Services reports printer process does not exist when installing PDF printer, And when Installing network printers from the domain controller it reports it cannot connect to printer. I can ping all
network devices. I can connect to the internet.
On boot I get a netlogon 5719 error followed by service control manager errors 7023,7001 and a group policy error 1129.
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Hi,
After referring to your post, it can be identified that the issue which you are facing is mostly due to some network issue in your environment. Please recheck your network connection issue between computer and domain controller.
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available Hotfix for the particular Event ID. Please go through this KB 2459530 to fix the error event ID.
As per the net logon error 5719 which you are facing states that the client component of Netlogon was unable to locate a DC for the domain it was trying to perform an operation against. Below is one of the reason. If this is being logged on a DC and the event
refers to the DC's own domain, something might be preventing the client component of Netlogon from starting a network session (to itself or to another DC in the domain). The following event 7001 & 7023 states start & stop operation service. Please
go through beneath article for more details.
1. Event ID 5719 is logged when you start a computer
2. Netlogon 5719 and the Disappearing Domain [Controller]
3. Event ID 1129 — Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy
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InDesign PDF export to network server becomes invisible

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Function module to fetch pdf file from App. Server and print/email?

Hi all,
Is there any function module to fetch a PDF file from APPLICATION SERVER and print the PDF file or send it as an attachment in an email?
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Thanks in advance.
Sandeep.

Hi Sandeep,
Is there any function module to fetch a PDF file from APPLICATION SERVER
1) As far as i know there are no FMs to read a file from App server, you can do the same using *OPEN/READ/CLOSE dataset ABAP statements - There are tons of examples for this on the net.
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APEX 3.1.2 / HTTP-Server 10g PDF-Printing included

Hello together
I have APEX running on the Oracle HTTP-Server 10.1.3. Apex is working. Now i want to integrate PDF-printing. I found a lot of HowTos to realize that with a separate OC4J-Installation in an new $ORACLE_HOME.
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Regards from Switzerland

Hello,
Carl Backstrom blogged about using Cocoon and Tomcat to integrate PDF-printing: http://carlback.blogspot.com/2007/03/apex-cocoon-pdf-and-more.html
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How to show/print waiting message when system is serving pdf to browser

Hi,
does anybody know how to print/show "please wait for your request to be completed..." message when they try to click GeneratePdf button for example
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just_a_kid83 wrote:
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PDF printing--tomcat/cocoon installed, but report server not found------

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I am not able to locate 'Instances' tab, or 'manage environment settings ' tab in 'manage services'
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3) workspace preferences
4) applications
5) workspace
6) workspace schema reports
7) Logs
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Sorry, it was a silly problem:) You have to be logged in as admin to 'see' the 'instances' tab. maybe in all the tomcat/cocoon build/config issues, this simply got off my head!
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PDF printing with proxy server

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Well, in my case this is not an option, since I used a demo host and domain name which can't be resolved through the proxy server ... If only there was an option to skip the proxy server for localhost settings (like there is in Internet Explorer).
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paresh_vakil

As far as I am away from the setup document yes I have. I have set the values in the Internal workspace for the in my case localhost , port is 8888 and the jsp file is the one supplied in the document.
I can see http://localhost:8888 but can't see the JS file, which makes me think that the JS is not working.
I am running the export on a report with a print button.
Do I need to supply an XML document as well, I have set a default stylesheet as the output but still doesn't work.
Andrew

PDF Printer on Print Server

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Networked HP K5400 printing everything backwards, server computer Windows Vista 32-bit Ultimate

Our networked HP K5400 printer has just started printing everything backwards, (word, notepad, Adobe reader, web). The server computer is a Windows Vista 32-bit Ultimate.
Configuration has been working fine since we got the printer over a year ago. I do not believe there have been any recent updates or new software installed since it's been printing backwards. A new router (Cisco Linksys E4200) was added but pretty sure it was printing fine even after router added a month ago. I have checked the properties and made sure Mirror Image IS turned off.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Carol

Okay, couldn't find any HP software on the server computer.
I DID however recheck all the settings and still only able to find MIRROR IMAGE set to OFF everywhere I looked..
UNTIL I clicked around and found one setting a little buried and it was set to ON.. Did a test print on something that was printing backwards and it printed correctly.
Thanks for your suggestion. When the printer gets moved to the router I'll have to recheck all the settings but until then I hope this fixes the problems.
Carol
Oh here is what I had to do.. The first part are the same directions that I found on here and other places but didn't work for me, second part is what fixed my problem.
START>CONTROL PANEL>HARDWARE AND SOUND>PRINTER
Rt. mouse CLICK on selected printer
CLICK PROPERTIES
CLICK button on bottom of GENERAL tab PRINT PREFERENCES
select OFF for MIRROR IMAGES
if that is alread set to OFF (which mine was already set to OFF)
CLICK on ADVANCED tab
CLICK on PRINTING DEFAULTS button at bottom
select OFF for MIRROR IMAGES (which mine was set to ON)
CLICK OK/APPLY to exit
test print

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Hi
Adobe Acrobat Standard 9 has been installed on this TS2008 (VM) server for over a year without problem until recently.
To start, the Adobe PDF printer stopped creating PDFs. When it worked a user would print and the PDF (creation) progress bar dialog box would open and the Adobe Distiller icon would appear in the taskbar (swirling) and a PDF would be created. Now we get the progress bar but no Distiller icon and no PDF is created.
Then Adobe Acrobat Standard (editor) failed to open any PDFs. We installed Adobe Acrobat 9 reader which opened PDFs for a while and now that has stopped working.
After many uninstalls, reinstalls, reg cleans we decided to open a case with Adobe who told us that Acrobat 9 is not supported on Server2008. The customer purchased Adobe Acrobat X.
We installed Acrobat X (in terminal server mode) and all was well for around 24hrs and then it all stopped working again.
I have since uninstalled reinstalled again. I created 1 PDF and after that the progress bar just hangs. We performed a controlled user logon to the server and all was going well until one user logged in and he isnt able to open Acrobat to read or edit PDFs.
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Hi billu54860732,
Try running the Repair command from under the Help menu to see if it corrects the problem.
The probable cause of the error is, multiple processes of Acrobat/Reader running in the background.
If 'Repair' doesn't resolve the issue kindly follow the steps mentioned below and check, if it helps.
1) Press CTRL+ALT+DEL together
2) Go to the Task Manager
3) Go to Processes in the Task Manager and kill al the processes related to Acrobat/Reader.
4) Launch Reader/Acrobat (It should launch without an error).
To further isolate the issue you might want to run Acrobat/Reader in an environment where no other services are running.
This can be achieved via "MSCONFIG"
1) Click on start type run
2) Type MSCONFIG in the run prompt
3) Go to services and click on hide all Microsoft services
4) Click disable all
5) Go to the startup in configuration window and disable all startup items
6) Restart your system
7) Launch Acrobat/Reader
If, it is launched without an error, a service on your system is conflicting with Acrobat/Reader.
Let me know if issue persist.
Regards,
Aadesh

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