Installing the PDF Printer driver

Downloading PDFCreator

PDFCreator is required to be installed on the workstation that prints to PDF.
PDFCreator is free and open source software.

Click here to download PDFCreator.

Installing PDFCreator

Version 1.3.1 of PDFCreator can be installed in one of two ways.

• Standard installation - do not use this install
• Server installation - choose this method to install PDFCreator

During setup PDFCreator asks for additional printer drivers

• Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME - do not install these drivers
• Windows NT 4.0 - do not install these drivers
• Windows 2000/XP/2003 - 64bit - install these drivers if your need additional drivers

At the end of the installation, a PDF print monitor window should appear.

Setting Auto Save in PDFCreator

We need to make one setting change to the PDF print monitor. Please click on Printer>Options.

We need to make one setting change in the Auto-save settings.
Directly under the navy blue line Auto-save, click on the Use Auto-save check button.
Click on the Save button.

In the screen shot above the original text in Use this directory for auto-save listed C:\PDFs\REDMON_MACHINE\REDMON_USER\ as the directory for auto-save. You should edit this to read C:\nv\PDFs\ to store your temporary PDF files as shown.

Setting PDF Print Directly to Printer

We need to make one last setting change to the PDF print driver.

1. Click on Windows>Start>Printer and Faxes.
   or if in classic mode Windows>Start>Settings>Printer and Faxes.
2. In the Printer and Faxes window select PDFCreator, see screen shot below.
3. Click on File>Properties.
4. Click on the Advanced tab.
5. Click on Print directly to the printer button, see screen shot below.
6. Click on OK to close the properties window.

PDFCreator is now ready to accept print documents from NewViews.