When you troubleshoot the printer installation, it can be a good test to see if you can install the printer manually through the normal Windows interface to do so. Maybe your spooler service is disabled for some reason or other things could be the problem. Maybe your system does not have the normal drivers available because your system administrator deleted them to save disk space.
Sometimes the installer fails to add the PDF printer to your list of installed printers. Author jr Posted on AugFebruCategories Configuration, Installation, PDF Printer Adding a printer manually This is typically under C:\Program Files\Bullzip\PDF Printer. It is located it the printer’s program folder. If you have a license on your old computer, you can move it to the new computer. The files can be copied to the new machine.īy copying the files mentioned above, you should get a PDF printer behavior, which is more or less the same as on the old system. Option sets shared between users are located in the folder C:\ProgramData\PDF Writer\Bullzip PDF Printer\Option Sets. The users have their settings stored in settings.ini found in %APPDATA%\PDF Writer\Bullzip PDF Printer. These settings apply to all users on the system. You can copy this file to the same location on the new machine. In C:\ProgramData\PDF Writer\Bullzip PDF Printer you will find the global settings in a file named global.ini.
The printer has a set of global settings and possibly some user specific settings to. Download and install the latest available version before you try to move the configuration. Unless you really have a good reason to install the same old version of the PDF printer as you had on the old system, I strongly recommend that you use the latest installer to install your new PDF printer.
The PDF printer may be part of this migration and you would like to know how to get the settings from the old machine to the new machine. You may find yourself in a situation where you are migrating your applications and data to a new workstation or server. The new printer will ask the printing application to print using an XPS based driver and convert the output to PDF.Īuthor jr Posted on NovemNovemCategories Fonts, Installation, PDF Printer, Troubleshooting Migrate PDF settings to a new computer Setup_BullzipPDFPrinter_11_10_0_2761_PRO_EXP.exe /XPS /PRINTERNAME="PDF Printer (XPS)" The following command line is an example that shows how to add an extra PDF printer named “PDF Printer (XPS)” to your system. You can tell the installer to add a PDF printer based on an XPS driver by adding the /XPS switch to the command line of the setup program. The functionality of the XPS based approach supports fewer features but it solves some of the other issues. To fix some of the Postscript related issues we have added the option to use an XPS based driver.
Postscript has built-in fonts and different strategies for embedding subsets of fonts which may not work well with software that tries to read or copy/paste the content of PDF documents. However, sometimes the output can convert in ways that do not serve the end purpose well.Įspecially font issues have been a reason to look for alternatives to the Postscript driver technology. This way of doing it has served the purpose well for a long time. The PDF printer was originally based on converting the output from Postscript drivers to PDF.