I'm not sure that printer driver is designed to work in tandem with a copy of it. There may be some file contention problems going on.
I would simply put wait statements in your code to prevent race conditions. --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> wrote: > From: Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net> > Subject: Printer Drivers: Screwing Things Up > To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com> > Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 8:41 PM > Hello: > > You work so hard at getting things to > work. Then, something > happens to give you grief. If it always happened, it > would be easy > to verify that your potential solution to it really does > work. If it > is occasional, you can not be sure that you have nailed > it. > > I have one of those situations. > > I would like to compliment Adobe on > how easy they make it to > use their Adobe PDF printer driver. Unfortunately, > since they do not > make it easy, I can not very well compliment them. > This USENET > message of mine (<e59oh2111dikqj55oa91cdse0984htu...@4ax.com>) > says > quite a bit of it. > > Occasionally, I run into what appears > to be a race condition > between printing with the Adobe PDF driver and copying the > PDF. I > posted here about this. My potential solution is to > have two Adobe > PDF printer drivers and printing one copy to each Adobe PDF > > printer. Occasionally, it hangs up. > > My code is not buggy, at least to the > extent that it does > usually work. The problem may well be Adobe's > code. Whatever. I > need to assure myself that I have indeed solved the > problem. > > What can cause trouble for a printer > driver? I would like to > force the problem to appear, at least fairly reliably, so > that I can > check my solution. Any ideas? > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/20090724004120.70c3698...@marge.leafe.com > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/208224.45519...@web31404.mail.mud.yahoo.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
