Printing fails in W2K server

PixelWare · Post by **PixelWare** » Mon Jun 26 2006

Hello,

we have a program that convert Word documents to pdf with AMYUNI PDF Converter 2.50.

We are using MSWord, open a document, modify the document, initialize the printer with a developer license,
put the driver printer to default, and print the Word document using MSWord.

Well, in Win 2000 server, using .NET wrapper dll, we cannot generate a pdf, because set driver printer to default fails.

(Really doesnÂ´t fail. We can see the printer sets as default, but MSWord uses another printer).

Also, we configured the driver port to "LPT1" and changed to "Print to File". Nothing change.

In Win 2000 Professional and Xp works fine.

Any idea?

Thanks.

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Jun 29 2006

So maybe Word 2000 is not printing to the default printer, it is printing to a specific printer instead.

Instead of setting the PDF Printer as default you can use:
WordApp.ActivePrinter = PrinterName
To set the active printer for the application that is printing.

Hope this helps.

PixelWare · Post by **PixelWare** » Mon Jul 10 2006

I put

WordApp.ActivePrinter = PrinterName

and Word printed in my AMYUNI printer.

In this machine, the method SetDefaultPrinter donÂ´t work.

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Tue Jul 11 2006

SetDefaultPrinter() does work in general, maybe it was taking time on this 2K machine.