Hello,
after months of successful PDF creation, suddenly my PDFCreator ceased to work. By coincidence, it might be related to my playing around with FoxitReader (but without any PDF creation). Now Foxit is removed. There have been new installations of Adobe Reader 9, as well as of PDFCreator 0.9.6.
The symptoms are as follows:
(As I have a German environment, my english wording may not be exact)
Creating the PDF Testpage from the options window works perfectly.
Then I try to convert an own small RTF file via PDFCreator print. The print monitor window appears and the indicated tmp file seems to be a proper PS. When I click the Save button in the creation window the mess is starting. pdfcreator.exe consumes nearly 100% CPU and the memory is eaten up successively. Error message windows appear saying "A folder can not be accessed ...", "Access to C:\ .... not possible. Not enough quota is available.", also a rudimental "Save under" window. Finally the PDFCreator disappears and nothing has been created.
Is there any advice to overcome this queer behaviour?
OS: Windows XP Home SP3
Best regards
traiso
As far as I could find out the problem is confined to RTF files. PDF creating from a lot of other applications is ok. But the attempt to print an RTF file to PDFCreator (as well from Wordpad as from Word) causes desaster. All other handlings of RTF files (read, write, print) are quite normal. With Process Monitor (Sysinternals) I traced the events when the desaster starts:
ReadFile J:\Temp\PDFCreator\PDFCreatorSpool\~PS56.tmp SUCCESS
CloseFile J:\Temp\PDFCreator\PDFCreatorSpool\~PS56.tmp SUCCESS
RegQueryKey HKCU\Software\Classes SUCCESS Query: Name
RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Classes\.rtf NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read
RegOpenKey HKCR\.rtf SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
RegQueryKey HKCU\Software\Classes SUCCESS Query: Name
RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Classes\.rtf NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read
RegOpenKey HKCR\.rtf SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
RegQueryKey HKCU\Software\Classes SUCCESS Query: Name
RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Classes\. NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read
RegOpenKey HKCR\. SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
RegQueryKey HKCU\Software\Classes SUCCESS Query: Name
RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Classes\. NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read
RegOpenKey HKCR\. SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
RegQueryKey HKCU\Software\Classes SUCCESS Query: Name
RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Classes\. NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read
RegOpenKey HKCR\. SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
..... and so on infinitely or better until the resources are exhausted.
May be there is something wrong within the registry. But why is PDFCreator the only one to stumble over it?