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.
Note: PDFCreator should be run in Administrator mode.

Click here to download PDF Creator.

Installing PDFCreator

Version 2.0.2 of PDFCreator can be installed in one of two ways.

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

During setup PDFCreator asks to Select Components

• PDFArchitect - this is not required

Additionally, during setup PDFCreator asks to install other additional software

• Ad-Aware, etc - this is not required

At the end of the installation, this window should appear.

Setting Auto Save in PDFCreator

The main installation of PDFCreator is complete. We need to start PDFCreator from the Windows Start Menu. Windows>Start>All Programs>PDFCreator>PDFCreator

We need to adjust some settings, click on Profile Settings.

We need to make a setting change in the Auto-save settings.
Click on Auto-Save, then check the Enable automatic saving and fill in the Target Folder: with the path and folder name you wish to save your pdf files. You should edit this to read C:\nv\PDFs\ to store your temporary PDF files as shown. Click on Save then OK to finish.

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.
Note: PDFCreator should be run in Administrator mode.