Using PrimoPDF on a Terminal Server

[hgentry]

Have you tried installing this on a Terminal Server? If so, what version(s) (WinNT, 2000 and/or 2003)?

[Douglas Saltsman]

It should work fine, although the system environment variables will redirect some of the registry keys to a private user profile instead of a system profile.

There is a key under HKLM->Software->AFPL ghostscript. make sure the value points to the DLL located in your PrimoPDF directory.

Make sense?

[hgentry]

This is what the registry entries have:

GS_DLL C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\gs\gs8.13\bin\gsdll32.dll

GS_LIB C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\gs\gs8.13\lib;C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\gs\fonts;C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\gs\gs8.13\Resource


That appears to be OK, because I will give EVERYONE (as an NT/Windows 2000/2003 domain Group) full access to the paths in the registry keys.

Will that suffice?

[Douglas Saltsman]

It should. The thing is with Terminal Services, The environment variables get set to a User directory (basically each user has it's own system dir) so we need to make sure that there are actually files at that path on the machine as seen by the system account.

[mordock]

Hi,
I've installed your excellent product on a Terminal Server/Citrix machine (that has the drive remapped i.e. c: become m:).
The program seems to run but I only get back a white page when I try to print a PDF from varius apps.
I controlled the registry path and the config file path but without success. Any idea or suggestion?
Thanks,

Nicola

[Dave Lehrman]

Has anyone solved the problem of using PrimoPDF on Win2K Terminal Services yet? We have applied all of the suggested fixes seen thus far in this forum, to no avail. It does appear to be a permissions issue - it runs successfully at the local console. However, via a TS session the resultant PDF document is always blank. Great product - would very much like to use it in the TS environment. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[yeoman]

I have the same problem.. I only need 1 server to work -for 1 user.. thin client. Admin Console works fine =PDF has data... as a user -in a session. PDF is blank. (me with ADmin rights to ev everything)
Install: M: PrimoPDF - user has full rights.
INI files point to m drive OK
reg point to M: ok
rights to printer primoPDF -user has full rights.
Output File: U drive -user = full rights.
I see nothing missing..

Attached Txt file log w/ debug on. -please review and get back to me ASAP

Yeoman