32-bit VB6 App and 64-bit Windows OS

[Arnold Trost]

Hello Tracker team,

i have one simple question: Who can i get the VBExCOM (VB6) Example of SDK V4 working under a 64-bit Windows (including events) ? Ist this possible ? I want to switch to V4 if this works. Our business application is VB6 and works with the SDK-V3 ActviceX but i cannot use PDF-creation on x64 Windows.

kind regards
Arnold

[John - Tracker Supp]

Hi Arnold,

Are you saying the one provided as an example with the SDK for V4 - does not work ?

[Arnold Trost]

Hello Support Team,

yes, the VBExCOM Example does not work with Windows 7 - 64 bit. Can you help me to get this example to work with 64 bit OS ?

kind regards Arnold

[John - Tracker Supp]

Hi Arnold - investigating now ...

thanks for your patience.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Can you explain what doesn't work?

I just have tested VB6 VBExamp sample project under Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (it is my work comp) and all works as expected - using the latest V4 release - not the V3 release which is not designed to work with Windows 7 ....

[Arnold Trost]

You are right. After installing the latest PDF driver the example works. Great. Thank's for all !

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

The pleasure is all ours Arnold

Regards,
Stefan

[Arnold Trost]

Hello Support team,

i got the example to work, but i can't get the PDF driver to work in may app. I initilaized the driver like in the example (with valid reg.key and .SetAsDefaultPrinter) but i always get the watermark in my pdf output. Also the printer properties are not recognized. How can i debug this ?

kind regards

Arnold

[John - Tracker Supp]

We would need to see a small example application Arnold - showing this problem.

Please send this by email to :

Ivan@tracker-software.com - with a link back to this forum message and we need both source code and a ready to run compiled app - as small and compact as possible so its not hard to debug and come back to you.

also please advise when you do - the specific OS being used.

Thanks

[Arnold Trost]

Hello Tracker Team,

thanks for your patience. I'm not able to reproduce the problem when i extract the code of my project into a smaler one. The PDF output in the new project works. My project worked fine with PDFXchange 3 (which is not working on 64-bit OS). Maybe it's something with the event handling. It is not possible for me to get the PDFPrinter events to work (for example OnStartDoc). Does your programmers have some tips ?

kind regards Arnold

[John - Tracker Supp]

Hi Arnold,

can you post the code where you initiate and use the PDF-XChange driver - or zip the source and attach - please remove your license info.

Thanks

[Arnold Trost]

Hello support team,

i prepaired a runnning development environment with the PDF printing problem. I could give your programmer access via Teamviewer. I will also send you by mail a short description to produce a PDF document with our application (It's a iseries database report generator with Excel, OpenOffice and PDF output). I can't figure out the problem (trial and error 2 days !!). PDF 3 worked fine.

kind regards Arnold

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Hi,
in your code, hope you are referencing/printing to, the temporary printer created by the SDK API , not to "PDF-XChange 4.0" printer installed by default ?

[Arnold Trost]

Yes im printing to the temporary printer which is created without problems:

Set PDFPrinter = PDFPFactory.Printer("", "PDF-XChange 4.0 Desktop2", VALIDKEY.REG, VALIDKEY.DEV).

kind regards Arnold

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Please send me via Private message, or using email Ivan@tracker-software.com your registration codes.

[Arnold Trost]

Hello support team,

i deinstalled PDF-XChange driver version 3 and now it works fine. I'm really happy. Thank's for your support !

- Arnold

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Glad to hear that Arnold
We shall count this topic as now solved.

Regards,
Stefan