Bug Bounty: 150 $ for solution PDFCreator on Windows Vista
Submitted by philip on Wed, 2007-09-12 14:16.
Hello,
as you all know, PDFCreator currently does not work properly under Windows Vista. The upcoming Version 0.9.5 will have basic Vista support, but the main problem has not been solved.
The problem is, that Vista has a strict security system, that does not allow the way PDFSpooler.exe tries to start PDFCreator under the context of a user.
Is there someone who has already done this under windows Vista?
We have the possibility to do this in C (not C# oder C++) oder in Visual Basic 6.
Any help, hints oder experience is appreciated here, as we have spent several days on this issue without a result.
We are offering a bounty of 150$ for the first one who can solve this.
regards,
Philip
This may be a shot in the dark, but it seems to work for me.. although there may be some other permissions that I have set that allowed it to work.
On the printer setup for the PDFCreator Printer - Configure Port for the Printer (the port runs PDFSpooler.exe and redirects the Print Output to the PDFSpooler).. Then check "Run as User", then PDFSpooler.exe can start as a user, and the PDFCreator seems to work fine on Vista for me ?
Can anyone else try this out and let me know ?
If this works, all that needs to change in the installation of the printer.. everything else seems to work fine.