PDF XChange Forum

ketter

I'm dropping a note here since I was looking for this feature also. We currently use both PDF-XChange Editor and Bluebeam. Personally I prefer PDF-XChange Editor, but just had another user request Bluebeam because he needed this capability. Custom border styles would be a great addition to PDF-XChan...

ketter

I just recently upgraded our company to PDF-XChange PRO 9.0 Build 351.0. Users are reporting problems printing. I just tried printing from Excel and got an error: "Your file could not be printed due to an error on PDF-XChange Standard on." Do we have a solution for this yet? EDIT TO ADD: I...

ketter

Daniel,
Thanks. You are correct, for prior installs I used the "pro" install. Not sure how I missed that. Time to do clean up now.
Ken

ketter

I am licensed for PDF-XChange PRO. I install using the EditorV7.x64.msi file. My most recent setup used version 7.0.328.2 and my previous install was 7.0.327.0. I never noticed this before, but for some reason I now see two printers: PDF-XChange Lite and PDF-XChange Standard. This is a standard inst...

ketter

Dimitar,
Thanks! Good to know they will fix this. Hopefully they can get to it soon since this is very confusing.

Ken

ketter

Just sent an email with the test file. Sorry for the delay, I was waiting on a coworker who was out of the office.

ketter

Any progress on this? Thanks!
Ken

ketter

Some may have updated drivers, but some don't, so I am sending you a link to our file transfer server. It will reference this thread. This is a Windows 7 64 bit PCL6 driver. Thanks!

ketter

Work got a bit crazy and I am trying to catch up. Will send something tomorrow. Thanks!

ketter

Stefan, Our driver was set to "No Conversion". If we set it to "Convert to Grayscale" as you suggested, then it always does grayscale. Not good. What we want is for it to do color when printing in color and greyscale when printing in black and white. Adobe PDF and all of our phys...

ketter

Dimitar, We are already using those settings. I have attached a screen capture. The left side is output from your driver and the right side is output from Adobe PDF (this is also what we get when we print to any of our physical printers). If you want the actual PDF files, please provide an email add...

ketter

I see this on our Lanier LD435c and our Lanier MPC 4503. The drivers we are using is no longer available on their download site. If you provide me with an email address, I can send a link so you could download them from our file transfer server. I've attached a screen shot of what I am seeing. The p...

ketter

PDF to be printed is in color. Printer is color capable. Driver is set to default to black and white. In the past when I would print preview the image, it would show black and white since the driver was set to black and white. If I changed the driver to print to color, the print preview would displa...

ketter

We have print setups in Revit that specify black and white printing. When we use these with all of our color capable printers or with the Adobe PDF driver, we get black and white lines and grey scale area fills and photos. When we print using the v6 and v7 print drivers, we get black and white lines...

ketter

So everything is just stored all together in a single binary called PDF-XChange Standard? Guess I'll have to do a little testing. Wish it was still individual strings like previous versions.

ketter

So we recently found out that we need to have the "Embed All Used Fonts" option checked due to some issues with a new plotter we purchased. We are running PDF-XChange Standard Version 7.0 Build 325.1. An earlier version of the PDF driver stored everything in the registry and I could just p...

ketter

I've learned that Tracker Software understands customer service. Companies like Adobe, Autodesk, etc have long forgotten what that means (if they ever knew it). I can come here with a problem and quickly get a solution. I have asked for enhancements here and seen them added. I do realize that suppor...

ketter

Well that's unfortunate. Adobe is a pain to work with. I much prefer Tracker Software people and software. Guess I'm installing Reader. Thanks for the quick response.
Ken

ketter

Any idea if or when PDF-XChange Editor will support 3D content? I would love to completely do away with Acrobat Reader, but we just received a PDF with 3D content and now I need to install Reader for one of my users so he can review it.

Thanks!
Ken

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Daniel,
We have purchased licenses with maintenance so I can update. I might try that soon. But Stefan had copies of my files and I assume he saw the same results, so I'm not sure that updating would help. But I will try when I get time.

Ken

ketter

I did not use PDF XChange Editor to do the scanning. We do not have locally attached scanners. Scanning is done with MFPs (scanner/printer/copier units that handle up to 11"x17") or our large format scanner (for documents up to 36" wide). I will just wait and see what Tracker does wit...

ketter

Willy, That might work. Keep in mind that in both cases, I scanned the document in portrait mode. I did not do any rotation editing myself. Both scanners are from the same manufacturer (they are Lanier MFPs). But if I understand correctly from Stefan, one rotated the coordinate system clockwise and ...

ketter

Willy, That does not work. If I copy/paste all form fields as I normally would they show up rotated 180 degrees (text is upside down). If I follow your suggestion, the fields are still rotated 180 degrees, but now the text is right-side up. Still does nothing for me because all the form fields are i...

ketter

And a nice enhancement then would be the ability to over-ride the documentation orientation when I do a copy/paste.
Ken

ketter

Stefan,
Ok, that must be because I used a different scanner this year. I did not rotate them myself. So how do I do the transform? I couldn't find a "rotate" handle on the selected objects and I could not find a rotate command in the menu.
Ken

ketter

I just emailed the forums as directed. Thanks!

ketter

PDF-XChange Editor Plus Version 6.0 Build 322.5. I have a form that I created by scanning a document and adding the form fields to it. Each year when I get a new form, I copy/paste the fields from the prior version into the new one and modify them as needed. For some reason this year when i copied i...

ketter

Thanks Patrick! Hopefully this is an easy enhancement and can be added soon.

Ken

ketter

Our typical setup is two monitors. We would like to be able to open two files in PDF-XChange Editor, place one on each monitor, and full screen both of them. What we see right now is that we will full screen one and then select the second one and it becomes full screen and the first one loses the fu...

ketter

Works now! While setting up my install (I push it out via my mgmt software) I noticed a setting I had changed - which I corrected. So not sure if it was the newer build or the setting change, but all is good now. Thank you!

ketter

I have Microsoft Office 2010 Standard installed and I am running PDF-XChange Editor Plus 6.0 Build 322.4 (licensed). When I select File, Export, I only see options for Images, PowerPoint, and Word. The Help shows that Excel should also be an option and I have a user requesting it. How do I get the E...

ketter

Thanks again!
Ken

ketter

By the way, does anyone know if the Text Rendering Mode is stored in a registry setting? It would be great if I could just push out the correct setting to everyone.

ketter

Willy, That was it! I'm not sure how that changed, but setting Text Rendering mode to Auto solved the problem. Just odd that it would suddenly default to something other than Auto. I have a standard install that I push out to everyone and I didn't change that setting. Oh well. Thanks! Appreciate you...

ketter

Willy, Misunderstood you. I just downloaded your file and printed it. It jumped to 225 KB (see attached file). Something odd is going on here. I'm wondering if I stumbled across some bug in PDF XChange Editor. I noticed that if we print from Acrobat to the PDF-XChange Standard printer driver, the fi...

ketter

Will,
Examples were just sent to the provided email address.

Willy
Sorry, but as I mentioned in the original post, I would rather not publicly post these files.

Thanks,
Ken

ketter

Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't decrease the size.

ketter

We have some software that outputs to PDF. If we open the PDF in PDF XChange Editor and reprint it to PDF using PDF-XChange Standard V6, the file size increases considerably. For example a 461 KB file will print to 16.1 MB. Optimizing it won't shrink it. I don't want to post these files, but I can s...

ketter

Just sent requested info by email.

ketter

By the way, is there also a way to remove old license keys? I know how to do it manually, but I want a way to clean up old ones automatically...maybe a script or removing a registry value?

Thanks,
Ken

ketter

This has worked in the past, but I can't seem to get it to work with XChange PRO 6.0.319. I am installing an MSI with my PC management software. I include the following three MSI properties: KEYACCEPTED 0 SCHEDULEUPDATER 1 KEYDATA <key value removed from posting for obvious reasons> :-) After instal...

ketter

Thanks! Just sent them.
Ken

ketter

@Patrick, I do have all those options checked. If someone can provide me with an email or private upload location, I will send the PDFs. @Will, I think they are embedded click here types. So I assume this means that Adobe does not use the Windows GDI to print with their printer driver. Their printer...

ketter

Do you have somewhere I can upload them privately? Would rather not post them to a public forum.

ketter

PDF-XChange Standard V6 Build 319 is now installed, but it still does not create links and bookmarks. How can we troubleshoot this? We really need this functionality. I can send sample PDF files created from the same software using Adobe PDF driver and your driver to compare if needed. Sidenote: The...

ketter

Patrick
I'll try that on Monday. What about the links and bookmarks issue. Or should that work once I have the driver updated?
Ken

ketter

Patrick,
I have a PRO license and I used the PRO installer: ProV6.x64.msi
Ken

ketter

I used the 64bit MSI installer to install PDF XChange PRO over a previous 318.1 install. Editor is now upgraded to 319.0, but the Standard printer driver is still at 318.1. Is the 319.0 driver not included in the PRO MSI installer? We use Autodesk REVIT software and it now has the ability to print l...

ketter

Sweet! Thanks! You just made my user very happy!

Ken

ketter

I have a user that marked up a PDF with a considerable amount of text using the Typewriter tool. After completing it, he realized that he really should have made the text red instead of black so it would stand out. The only way we can see to do this would be to select each piece of text and change t...

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