YAFPC-Appliance

PDF File Size

30 Oct 09 14:17:17 GMT

Georg Welsted: When using acrobat my filesizes are quite a bit smaller that the YAFPC ones, is there any way to adjust the PDF compression?

File names redux

23 Sep 09 15:26:30 GMT

Andrew Cyr: I would like to use a specific field from a specific line in my PDF file to build the file name, and I have a working script with sed and awk to extract the needed field.

Did I misunderstand, however, that I can build a filename from the PDF file contents? The documentation makes reference to the "Document title," but I didn't see that explained.

I'm using YAFPC as a remote print queue on an AIX system, and I am printing to the queue using the enscript command. For example:

enscript -dpdf filename

where 'pdf' is the queue name. So, 'filename' is my 'Document title'?

Thanks,
Andrew Cyr

Page numbers

22 Sep 09 17:54:25 GMT

: I do not have the page number option checked, but each page in my pdf file has the filename and the page number as a header. Is there a way to get rid of these? I see nothing further in the manual.

Thanks,
Andrew Cyr

Admin password lost

21 Sep 09 09:27:01 GMT

Willy Terlinden: Is it possible to reset the admin password?
YAFPC runs in a VM for a long time now and i lost the admin passwort.

If not: is it possible to extrakt the lizense to set up the server again?

If not - is there a way to receive my license again?

Kind regards,

Willy

Print queue problems

17 Sep 09 18:15:28 GMT

Andrew Cyr: YAFPC is set up and apparently working okay for Windows hosts. I am trying to set up a remote print queue on an AIX 5.3 system. The jobs sent from AIX do appear, but they are empty--only the 'unlicenced' watermark appears in the .pdf file. I find the following in the YAFPC error log:

Thoughts?

===
Cleared Thu Sep 17 13:10:50 EDT 2009
Error: /undefined in #
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:69/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Error: /undefined in #
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1862 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1739 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:69/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

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17 Sep 09 07:17:32 GMT

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Point&Print Problem with Windows 7

2 Sep 09 10:50:58 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: there is a general problem with using point&print on Windows 7. We have no solutions yet. The only way is to install local TCP/IP printers (see manual) on those Windows machines using the newest "ghostpdf.inf" and "ghostpdf.ppd" files from here:

http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/branches/icc_work/lib/ghostpdf.inf
http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/branches/icc_work/lib/ghostpdf.ppd

W.U.

Point&Print works with 64bit systems now

27 Aug 09 09:19:52 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: The new version 6.02 of YAFPC-Appliance has additional printer drivers for 64bit systems now available.

W.U.

Change default settings of the “Point&Print” driver

2 Jul 09 11:24:41 GMT

Christian Krex: Hi!
Is it possible to alter the default settings of the “Point&Print” driver before it is installed on the client?
e.g. papersize from "Letter" to "A4"?

Thanks
C.K.

Installing on ESXi 3.5 - wont boot after CD install

9 Jun 09 14:45:21 GMT

Steve Root: Hello,

I'm migrating our VMWare 1 server to a VMWare ESXi 3.5 machine. I've had YAFPC running on VMWare workstation and server 1 without any problem for a couple of years, moving between hosts seamlessly.

When I try converting the YAFPC appliance to work on ESX, it uploads to the ESXi server fine but doesn't boot
When I try a fresh install of either YAFPC v5 or v6, it doesn't boot (same problem).

It will install from the CD/.iso image, but after reboot the machine hangs showing a black screen with a white underscore / cursor at the top left.

If anyone has any suggestions on the solution I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Steve

Document Properties

8 Jun 09 10:59:12 GMT

calvin: Hi.
Can YAFPC set the document properties, mainly author so we can track what who printed said document. and are there any plans to include digital signature support

client printing form TS wondows 2008

4 Jun 09 12:43:02 GMT

Knut Ivar Alvestad: First of all GRATE PRODUCT!

i simply love it.

The only disepoyntment i got is that i cant print form a windows 2008 terminal server. when trying to conect to the printer i'm geting :

windows cannot connect to the printer. operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d1)

Have ennyone any ide how to fix this?

net ads printer publish

17 Apr 09 15:08:38 GMT

calvin streeting: can the printers be publisehed to Active Directory using

net ads printer publish -Uadministrator%secret

as per samaba docs

internet not intranet possible?

5 Dec 08 09:52:51 GMT

Scott Denton: Is there a way to script print jobs from a site without a installing the printer on the client so that the printer dialog is not needed?

Would like to create a page using a print to pdf button. Like internet printing in iis?

Wonderful solution for a LAN, how about for a site?
Any direction in attempting this?
Thanks

Huge PDF File Size

2 Dec 08 09:04:25 GMT

Herbert Lehmann: I've print a Word Document 7 Pages and with linked Logos for head and footer ( File Size 63 KB ). I print this document with 300 Dpi to an PDF file. The PDF Filesize is about 7,5 MB.
If i print the same Word Document with Adaobe 8 PDF Printer the PDF filezise is about 60 KB.
If i take the YAFPC Pdf file, open it with Adobe Acrobat and chose Document->reduce filesize from the menu the result file is also about 60 KB.
Are anny settings ( except DPI ) to reduce the PDF filesize ??

multi thread ?

20 Nov 08 09:38:59 GMT

Andrew: Is YAFPC multithread, it can accepte multiple printing request and generate PDF simultaneously?

access denied

30 Oct 08 18:56:12 GMT

stumped: version 5.05 running in vmware server. i am able to install the printer by browsing to the server and doubleclicking the printer's icon, but when i try to print to it, i get the following error; windows cannot print due to a problem with teh current printer setup. try one or more of the following; check the printer by printing a test page from windows... i try this get the folowing error; test page failed to print. would you like to view the print troubleshooter for assistance/ access is denied.

i have made myself a printer administrator in yafpc, and i have administrative rights on the windows client. yafpc is able to communicate with the domain controller- it successfully looks up the email address associated with a username. no problems printing to any other printer.

Upgrade Hard Disk Install

29 Sep 08 11:30:43 GMT

shoodabean: Hi Wolfgang, once again thanks for this superb kit!

I am currently on version 5.03 and have installed it to hard disk to gain the speed benefits.

I am wondering if I can download the 'Upgrade Package' and feed that into YAFPC via the web interface.

Will this work with a hard disk install ?

Best Regards
Shooda

Cutting excelworkbook in pieces

1 Sep 08 11:56:15 GMT

Ruud van Eijk: Hi,

we are working with YAFPC versie 5.03.
In the archived topics i saw almost the same problem in excel that we also discover.
The problem is that when printing an Excel file with several workbooks, the PDF printer is cutting the workbook in several pieces.
What can we do to make it 1 pdf?

YAFPC v5.05 NTP Settings

27 Aug 08 20:33:28 GMT

Bob Handley: I have told YAFPC to use 2 local NTP servers and it tests successfully, but upon booting it appears as if YAFPC is syncing with clock.pdu.edu. While only an annoyance, I'd like to keep the time consistent.

Installing printers as users on an AD Domain

12 Aug 08 22:02:37 GMT

Shawn Williams: I am running in to an issue where you have to have admin access to a computer to install a PDF printer? All of our other printers install with out an issue regardless if the user is a local user or not.

Thanks

Dont Have DHCP, Need to set IP Manually

27 Jun 08 15:48:48 GMT

Jason Levandoski: Hello,

It has been a while since I have had to install a new YAFPC. I am installing on our new VMWare server. The problem is this server's subnet does not have DHCP. How can I setup the IP address manually?

Thanks,
Jason

samba asks for username and password

25 Jun 08 09:57:25 GMT

calvin: Hi..
I have installed the vmware version and all works fine.. but after a few days it starts asking clients for a username and password (when browseing the network). I have seen this before on our archive server (fedora core 9) but got around it by makeing it join the domain... is this possible. or what over things should i check?

Quality of PDF's created from PowerPoint files.

12 Jun 08 13:33:25 GMT

Bob Friend: I'm having issues creating PDF's from PowerPoint files. The only way to get a good quality PDF is to chose "High Quality" when printing the PPT. Unfortunatley this creates extremely large files sizes and makes it very impractical. What is the best method for printing PDFs from PPT files?

flattened PDF

30 May 08 20:59:47 GMT

: Is there a way to add feature the the PDF server that can create an printer to send out all jobs in a flattened PDF file. Where you can not see any hidden datas.

i.e like a word doc with some blacked-out text.

CIFS Password too long!

23 May 08 00:44:26 GMT

Simon Howley: Hi, when assigning a domain account into the External Storage Setting and clicking test I get the following result:

Error testing storage!

Error mounting //servername.domain.local/prints:
password too long.

I know this works as Im just trying to change accounts - the previous accounts credentials worked fine.

Is this a known limitation or have I hit a bug ?

Manythanks.

RE: Traffic simulation results

15 May 08 05:21:50 GMT

shoodabean: Hi Wolfgang, since running with YAFPC 5.03 (With the new features -thanks!) We have converted our business process from buying pre printed letterhead to letting YAFPC do the letterhead printing entirely.

The process works as such:

YAFPC is set up with one PDF printer per deparment. Plus a couple more for 'odd jobs'.

User prints to PDF printer using macros in word. PDF printer then saves document to network share.

My code watches network share for creation of documents and then prints that to a physical printer (which one depends on which pdf printer was used), backs up document in network share to another location and deletes from network share.

Not only has this massively reduced our costs on buying pre printed letterhead but also gives us control of whats on our letterhead and when. Usually this was a process of talking to suppliers, signing off proofs etc. We also have the added advantage of being able to change our letterheads on the fly, adding advertisements or extended opening times for our business.

We have been running 5.03 for a good while now. I'm very happy to say that we have had no problems, no reboots etc. It is exceptionaly reliable and very easy to install, configure and use.

We have on average about 1500 documents put through it everyday and have not had a single problem with it.

For our organisation it truly is bullet proof.

Many Thanks for such a device, I am looking forward to future versions (although I can think what could be done better!).

Best Regards
Shooda

Custom Filenames on a per printer Basis

17 Apr 08 07:12:49 GMT

Jeff Wilson: Hi there,

I was wondering whether it is possible to set a custom filename for each different printer we have setup?

So we have an invoice printer, which prints invoice(1).PDF

And also a Purchase Order Printer, which prints purchaseorder1.pdf?

Also is it possible to create the alias based on a portion of the username getting sent to the appliance?

When a job gets submitted it gets send as user "sean (192.168.2.2)" because of the way we have our software setup, and it is very hard to change the way that it is doing this.

I look forward to your reply.

Jeff

Dual Core

28 Mar 08 23:27:55 GMT

Trevor Smith: Hi, does the YAFPC-Appliance support dual core processors ?

Upgrade from 2.00 to 5.03 with keeping users printer settings

12 Mar 08 04:04:46 GMT

tys: Hi,
I'm using version 2.00 on VMWare server 1.0.x.
Can I replace YAFPC to 5.03 without reconfiguring printer that user already created on 2.00?

We have 200 users and I don't want them to re-create the printer.

High CPU usage on ESX Server

31 Jan 08 15:27:39 GMT

Fernando Costa: Dear all,

I am using PDF Server on a ESX Server, every thing is running just fine but the PDF Server is using to much CPU we have only 40 users and we have 5 or 10 documents printed a day.

VMWare tools are installed do you have any clue?

Traffic simulation results

31 Jan 08 15:11:43 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: After fixing a bug that caused a system crash when accessed by a large number of users, I have tested the system with a "traffic simulator" script. The test machine (appliance) was installed as virtual machine on VMware ESX Server 3.0.2. The VM has 512MB RAM, a 1GB HDD and is running from CD image version 5.03 with VMware-tools plugin installed and 6 testprinters configured.

The "traffic simulator" script was running on a Linux machine in the network. The script was running an endless loop doing the following steps:
- chose a random user account (1 of 500 possible)
- chose a random printer (1 of 6 possible)
- send a print job of 5 pages test document
- wait for a random time (1 to 20 seconds)

6 instances of this script were running in parallel for about 48 hours having printed 49810 documents. 2980 documents (6%) were discarded for exceeding the "maximum number of jobs" in a printer queue. 46830 documents were created properly and stored to the home directories of the 500 users. Documents in user homes have been removed when older than 30 minutes. Sending email to users was disabled.

After stopping the sripts there were 1398 print jobs remaining in the queues of the 6 printers. It took nearly 2 hours until the remaining jobs were printed and all queues were empty.

Looks like the system is bulletproof now!
It would be interesting to know, who has the system running with the biggest load in a production environment. Please report here.

W.U.

fatal: the Postfix mail system keeps stopping

28 Dec 07 17:46:48 GMT

Brian Abston: I was able to get serveral documents in and all seemed fine and now I am getting this. Please help me!

Oct 28 08:59:19 slax postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Dec 28 11:11:41 slax postfix/postsuper[7728]: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter default_privs: unknown user name value: nobody
Dec 28 11:11:42 slax postfix/postfix-script: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter default_privs: unknown user name value: nobody
Dec 28 17:20:11 slax postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Dec 28 11:20:33 slax postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

update v2 to v5 appliance no external storage

30 Nov 07 13:57:40 GMT

Marc: Hello,

if have upgraded my v2 appliance (under vmware server 1.04) to the new 5.01 appliance. Restored the settings from the v2 backup.
When I print to my pdf printers nothing happens. The log says that it has been created. The pdf pinter did not send an e-mail and the user folder on the external storage was empty. This all worked in v2 in my windows environment.
I have tested the credentials with the test button, it is ok.
I get only pdf's if the printer puts the pdf in the appliance user directory.

Any solution?

Thanks for all the efforts for this great pdf appliance.

Regards,
Marc

Blank PDF (or only letterhead background) problem & solution

28 Nov 07 16:31:11 GMT

Steve Root: I've just discovered a bug in version 5 related to the higher default printer DPI (we were using version 4 without issue).

Graphic DPI is now defaulting to 4000dpi and from one particular program we use to produce documents it simply prints a blank page at that resolution. Other applications print OK still. Dropping DPI down to 2400dpi for each user for each printer driver has solved it for that program (although I told users to now use 1200dpi to limit file sizes).

It would be nice to be able to set printer defaults like this (and also page sizes*) from within YAFPC rather than on each users printer settings.

*for others, page size default size can currently be achieved by creating a blank PDF of the desired page size and setting it as the letterhead background.

Hope this helps someone
Steve Root

Print website print spool is huge 74MB with v5.01

21 Nov 07 18:08:46 GMT

kooper: Is anything been change on the ghostscript driver, under the old version. When printer website, print spool size is under 5MB. With the current verison print spool is 74MB before it prints the job.

You can test on just printer google.com

Several network storages

5 Nov 07 15:38:13 GMT

Ole Christian Backer: In YAFPC Server, there are only one "Network storage", a server\share where we save PDFs.

Could it be possible to make more than one network storage available, with different creditentials per storage, just like we can make more than one printer? Then, we can use printers(and storages) like Printer_secretary that saves into \\server\secretary_share, and printer_admin that saves into storage server\admin_share...

We already have more than one printer, how about making more than one storage?

New Version 5.01 available!

1 Nov 07 15:48:04 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: On user request a new config item for printer properties was added:
A printer can now be configured to send its documents (additional) to a fixed email address. Upgrade from version 5.00 can be made via "Upgrade Package 501". Earlier versions need a change to the new ISO image "YAFPC-501.iso".

W.U.

embedded commands

30 Oct 07 14:32:12 GMT

Serge: Is it possible to transmit the email address with embedded commands in the document to the printer?

one printer to one user

19 Oct 07 06:53:00 GMT

: I need one LPR printer, when it recieves a job, to always e-mail the PDF to the one mailbox, regardless of who generated it.

The LDAP works fine, but now I want to test an extension of this where an AS400 print job will send all of its printer output to a specific user - everytime. (in fact it will be a number of "pdf-printers" each one sending to a defferent, specific mailbox (ie.. accounts printouts to the accounst dept mailbox; service to the service mailbox etc)

This would obviously be additional functionality to the LDAP functionality.

Possible?

Consecutive Numbers

30 Aug 07 23:57:10 GMT

David Cowie: Hi Wolfgang,

I'm using version 4.00 and have set up a printer that creates it documents in an external store.

The Consecutive number option is set for the file names but this doesn't appear to be working. I can see several documents being created in the log but all with the same name and only one appears in the external storage.

Thank you

David

PS hope you are enjoying your holiday.

Converted PDF File sent to 2 peoples

27 Aug 07 13:12:25 GMT

Thomas Etscheid: Hello,

my new Problem:
User wegner sends a Document to the pdf server and get a pdf back. But not only wegner gets this mail, marcwegner too.
In mail aliases i have 2 entries: "wegner" and "marcwegner".
What can i do to fix it?

Cutting PDF in a few pieces

15 Aug 07 12:29:11 GMT

Thomas Etscheid: Hi everybody,

we have a problem with printing a file to pdf:

The File contains of 59 Pages.
I click on print, wait e few sekonds and during the upload prozess to the PDF Printer, i´ll get the first mail with an converted pdf file, but it contains only Pages 1 to 31. Then, the next mail get in and contains a pdf file with Page 32. After this, the Next PDF File get in with converted Pages 33 to 59.

What could this be?

Large paper sizes again

9 Aug 07 22:27:39 GMT

Michael Hogan: Wolfgang;

I updated to 4.00 and used the manual to install the printer driver on a server to allow for large paper sizes to be plotted from AutoCAD.

The plot previewed in the software OK, but the PDF produced was only a small 8.5 x 11 corner of the plot.

Any idea what may be going wrong?

(Thanks for a great product)

LDAP Search for Email Addresses now available!

2 Aug 07 16:42:05 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: For those who have frequently requested a function for querying a LDAP server or Active Directory to get a user's email address there is an early access version 4.15 available for download. The download is not displayed on the homepage yet. But with the following two download links everyone can get this version. Download the files:

http://www.pdfserver.net/_download/YAFPC-415.iso
and
http://www.pdfserver.net/_download/YAFPC-Appliance-415.war

After downloading and applying the ISO image (as CD or in a virtual machine) please use the adminstration interface to install the upgrade package YAFPC-Appliance-415.war. Then find the LDAP settings in "Mail Aliases".

Please report your results and suggestions to this forum. If the community test are positive over some time this feature will be included into the next official release.

have fun!

Wolfgang Ullrich

Larger Paper Sizes?

24 Jul 07 21:04:23 GMT

Michael Hogan: How can I add larger paper sized to the YAFPC printer. We print often from AutoCAD, and need 24x36 inch sheets

Plugins

6 Jun 07 15:50:44 GMT

Eric Testerman: Where are the plugins located. The help in the admin interface points to http://www.pdfserver.net/plugins.php however this returns 404 page not found. I would really like to add SNMP plugin

Email issue

5 Jun 07 20:34:31 GMT

Eric Testerman: Okay I would like to know how difficult it would be to change your scipts to not pull the logon name, but to instead pull the full name? I am asking this because I have a network of just under 1000 users and I really do not want to have to setup an alias list that has to be maintained seperate from Active Directory, our email structure is first.last@domain.com and the usernames are lastnamefistinital@domain.com Any help here would be great.

Install on Harddrive?

31 May 07 17:54:57 GMT

Scheidl: hello,
is it possible to install on harddrive?
is there a howto anywhere?

Version 3.01 problems :(

25 May 07 14:22:09 GMT

Grzegorz Janicki: Hello I have a few problems :
1. Powerpoint presentation with more than 50 pages can't be transform to pdf
2. Tab Mail Aliases - after adding more than 100 aliases form file i'm not able to see the list of aliases with delete tabs
3. Email with information about ready pdf file to download: UNC link is different from HTTP link
\\printer\login\name_of_document-number.pdf
http://printer/tmp/user_login-number.pdf
only HTTP is good ... UNC drive to nowhere

besides of that it's great software thanks a lot ;)

External Storage

25 May 07 12:58:43 GMT

Thomas Etscheid: Hi,

I´ve Troubles to configure the external Storage.

the following error appears:

Error testing storage!
Error mounting //path/to/share:
retrying with upper case share name mount error 6 = No such device or address Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

If i type "\\server\share" in my Windows Explorer, i´ll get the share opened.
So, where is the problem and how can i fix this?

Problems accessing YAFPC 3.01b after upgrading from 1.06b

14 May 07 17:29:04 GMT

Todd Grimes: Below is the error message I get every time I try to login to the system. I can no longer print to the system either.

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /status.jsp:7

4: int postResult=PostRequestParser.POST_ERROR;
5:
6: if(request.getMethod()=="POST"){
7: PostRequestParser parser=new PostRequestParser(applianceConfig,null);
8: parser.doPost(request,response);
9: postResult=parser.getResult();
10: if(postResult==parser.POST_ERROR)

Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:375)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: http/utils/multipartrequest/MultipartRequest
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:858)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:791)
org.apache.jsp.status_jsp._jspService(status_jsp.java:147)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: http/utils/multipartrequest/MultipartRequest
org.apache.jsp.status_jsp._jspService(status_jsp.java:93)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

Network Envoronment Troubles

24 Apr 07 08:11:22 GMT

Thomas Etscheid: Hi,

I have a Problem, connecting to the PDF-Server Appliance via Network Environment.
i Type: \\IP-ADRESS\ and then push the ENTER Button, but instead of the PDF Server, it appears a errormessage like:

Can´t access pdf Server, you may lack access to use this networksource. Pleas contact your administrator.

The network is not present or hasn´t been started.

So, what do I have to do?

Regards,
Thomas

PowerPoint is not converted normaly

23 Apr 07 08:31:41 GMT

tys: Hi Wolfgang,
I purcheced VM Appliance version YAFPC2.00.
Word, Excel, conversion are fine but not for ppt files.

How to duplicate.
1. Create new powerpoint presentation
2. In the title type "123456789012345678901234" with one line.
3. Save the file and print as PDF using YAFPC.
4. PDF will create two line like follows.
"12345678901234567890"
"1234"

I want YAFPC to show exactly what user see.
I've tried many settings on YAFPC also PPT side, but can't resolve the issue.

Please help

YAFPC-Appliance Homepage online again!!!

23 Apr 07 07:23:51 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: After consulting a couple of experts I'm confident the Appliance has to be seen as "mere aggregation" of a shareware component with GPL'ed software corresponding to §2 of the GPL. To make this more clear I have made some changes to the current appliance: My own GPL'ed component YAFPC is not compiled into the appliance package any more; The preinstallation of the appliance was replaced by an installation script, thus the user must conform the installation first; And all GPL'ed software have been made public (incl. sources) on a new project homepage as "General-Purpose Appliance System" to be useable for other software appliances too.
Hope that nobody bothers me again with accusations about violating other licenses.

Have fun with YAFPC-Appliance!

W.U.

Project Homepage of YAFPC-Appliance being unavailable!

14 Apr 07 18:45:14 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: I've been accused by someone for violating the GNU General Public License (GPL) by distributing my shareware program YAFPC-Appliance preinstalled on a Linux life system which is distributed under the GPL. To avoid trouble in case this person is right, I have switched the project homepage of YAFPC-Appliance completely offline. I'll try to get instructions about what to do in the next few days from people who should know more than me about this. Depending on the result the homepage will get online again, probably with some required changes, or stay offline permanently. If someone in the audience of this forum has good knowledge about this object please feel free to post.

!!!New SNMP Agent Plugin Module available!!!

13 Apr 07 12:36:53 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: If installed on a YAFPC-Appliance PDF Server it enables read only access to SNMP managed objects on this machine.
SNMP versions V1, V2c and V3 are supported. This plugin can be used to monitor important system parameters of the PDF server with NAGIOS, N-View or other SNMP based network monitor systems.

You can configure access to this agent in "Plugin Management" | "Configure Plugin". Assumed you have checked "Enable SNMP V1&V2c", setup the community to "public" you can test the access from any Linux host with snmp installed using this command:

snmpwalk -v 2c -c public

Feature Request

11 Apr 07 10:33:22 GMT

shoodabean: Would it be possible to also prepend a pdf document to the beginning of the print job too ? My org. would find this feature usefull.

Many thanks.

Printing from PDF-Files to PDF-Files

29 Mar 07 07:44:54 GMT

Michael Lechner: Hi everybody,

I experience the problem, then when I just want to print a few pages from a bigger pdf-file to a new pdf-file. Only some sign are in the new pdf-file.

Does anyone knows about this?

Regards

Michael

Feature Request

28 Mar 07 20:48:19 GMT

Gene Pinson: Would like to be able to configure CIFS by printer configuration as opposed to only having the single remote storage.

!!!! New Version 2.00 available now !!!!

23 Mar 07 14:28:30 GMT

Wolfgang Ullrich: This is a general code cleanup version. The main change is the underlying Linux system was changed to SLAX Linux (http://www.slax.org). This system has the advantage of being able to install plugin modules. A first set of plugins for VMware Tools is available by now. Other plugins may follow. So I've planned to make the following plugins in the near future:
- SNMP Plugin that enables SNMP read access to all Linux system MIB's to be used for monitoring the appliance by some network monitors like Nagios.
- Database connector plugin for storing created documents to external MySQL databases.
- MySQL server plugin to be used as a storage for created documents.
- Database client plugin for browser based access to stored documents.
- Full Text Search plugin to provide a full text search feature for stored documents in databases.

Feature to modify Image compression?

16 Mar 07 10:40:18 GMT

Thomas Etscheid: Hi,

is there a feature or option to modify the compression of images in converted pdf´s like in Adobe Acrobat?
There you can say images should be in xyz% of quality in created pdf´s, or don´t leave quality, because the images are still fragmented.

Regards,
Thomas

System outdated for Test License - 2

15 Mar 07 22:27:53 GMT

Simon Vidmar: I'm receiving above message, but ISO image i use is the newest I could download (YAFPC-106.iso).

www.pdfserver.net is not accessible

15 Mar 07 12:54:12 GMT

Simon Vidmar: Hi Wolfgang!

I'm trying to http://www.pdfserver.net but I receive no response.

I'm interested in buying license but for now I would like to try evaluation license for now.

Bye,
Simon

Links In PDF

15 Mar 07 10:54:58 GMT

Zane Cole: I have a full licence but am having problems getting links from Word to the final PDF version.

They appear blue and and underlined as expected, but are not clickable from Within the PDF (using Adobe Reader)

Any ideas?

Suggestions for new features

14 Mar 07 10:07:13 GMT

Martin Jønch: Hi Wolfgang,

I saw that you asked for some input to new features in this forum sometime last summer. I don't know if you are still interested, but if you are, you should take a look at this competing product which has a couple of features, that we're VERY interested in.

http://www.broadgun.com/pdfmachine/help/pdfmachinehelp.htm

The one thing that I really miss in your product is the possiblility of adding a reciept email address as a parameter to each printjob.

I.e.: every month, we send out 800+ pages of accountstatements from Navision. We've already have a field on each clientaccount containing that client's email-address and another field (boolean) to show whether the client want to receive his accountstament via email.

The accountstatement is just the start. If I can move - let's say 50% - of all our invoiceprints to PDF as well, I could really save some forrest. We currently print around 1.000 invoices a day!

Regards,
Martin

Reserved usernames?

14 Mar 07 09:51:04 GMT

Martin Jønch: Hi Wolfgang,

The product works great for everyone except one of my user. I have a sense, that the problem is related to his username (which is ADM).

If I'm right - is this something that could be avoided in some way, besides renaming the users entire environment in AD etc.?

Regards,
Martin

Multiple print jobs into one PDF file

18 Feb 07 00:55:36 GMT

Dieter Hummel: As a matter of fact, when we want to print out legal folders from within our DMS - containing scanned material and digital copies of internal papers - it happes that for each and every entry in the database a single printjob is created. Thus a print of 300 pages takes a long time locking up a printer. My idea was to send all print jobs to a stand alone PDF print server which is able to create ONE PDF file which can quickly and easily be printed out or emailed...
Can I APPEND several consecutive print jobs from ONE user into ONE PDF file with YAFPC? If not, is it planned for the future?

Installation-NIC not recognized

13 Feb 07 12:14:56 GMT

Drazen Zuvela: I am just about testing YAFPC (0.99) on my test machine recently renewed. Its Gigabyte MB with integrated RTL8111b. Same card was not recognized by recent SLES installation but was recognized by SUSE10.2
At the moment dowloading latest YAFPC version 1.06, in order to see will this card be recognized.
What to do if knoppix base is stil the same? Is there any option to start CD installation and add right drivers for this card?

Wish List

9 Feb 07 14:55:18 GMT

Gary Bowling: I posted this in another note, but it's really a new topic.

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I would like for this to work similar to "print to fax" printing on your PC.

For that, when you print to a fax, it brings up a form to let you put in the telephone number of the recipient. You can also search your address book to find the recipient and you can choose multiple recipients, much like an email CC, BCC, etc.

Once you choose your recipients, you next choose whether you want to include a cover sheet. Pick the style of the sheet and then type in your cover letter details.

Once finished, it sends the fax to all the recipients with the cover sheet.

This appliance would be wonderful if you could do it the same way.

Any time I have a sales person who wants to send a quote or our accouting wants to send an invoice... We currently print the quote or invoice, scan it to a PDF, and email it to the customer with a note saying what it is.

If we could print directly out of our accouting package to this appliance, put in the users email address, and type a cover note for it.. It would be very useful as a business appliance.

If you own quickbooks, which is the most popular small business accouting package. They offer the ability to send an email quote, invoice, etc.. However, it goes through their email service (not your own) and many people have complained about delayed emails, etc. Not to mention you can't put in a cover sheet, or a letterhead or anything like that.

This would be a way to do the same thing, but have more features and could be marketed to small businesses for that use.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Gary