0

I'm using a Windows 10 machine (x64) which connect through RDP to a Windows 7 machine (x86). Printer forwarding is enabled and all phsysical printers are forwarded. Just my pdfforge PDFCreator Printer is not appearing.

I also installied the PDF printer software on the Win7 machine to make sure that the driver is installed 'cause I couldn't find the x86 driver itself.

Any idea to fix this?

ManuKILLED
  • 21
  • 2
  • This likely has to do with the fact one installation is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit. – Ramhound Jan 11 '21 at 18:12
  • I also thought thats the problem but after installing that whole PDFCreator software on the x86 machine it didn't solved the issue. – ManuKILLED Jan 11 '21 at 18:15
  • It wouldn't have since the printer being shared is from a 64-bit installation. – Ramhound Jan 11 '21 at 18:16
  • Would an explicit export and import of the driver solve that problem? https://superuser.com/questions/1196061/how-to-export-installed-device-driver-on-windows-7-for-later-use – ManuKILLED Jan 11 '21 at 18:20
  • You can't install 64-bit drivers on a 32-bit installation of Windows. – Ramhound Jan 11 '21 at 18:21
  • Correct, but I can also add a x86 driver through offering the printer as a network share, or not? Otherwise, is there any solution to solve this issue? – ManuKILLED Jan 11 '21 at 18:24
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118331/discussion-between-manukilled-and-ramhound). – ManuKILLED Jan 11 '21 at 20:10

1 Answers1

0

you can turn on logging for the PDFCreator from the “PDF Print Monitor” (Printer->Logging) and for the pdfcmon.dll by adding the following entry to your registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\pdfcmon name : Logging, value :1 ( logfile created in%Windir%\Temp_pdfcmonLog.txt) maybe these logs will help to track down the problem.

https://forums.pdfforge.org/t/pdf-creator-on-printer-server/10006

karlie
  • 27
  • 2