Printing to Adobe PDF problem – “Invalid Adobe PDF printer properties: Do not change spooler settings”
Description
SPOOLing stands for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line. The principle is rather simple: The process sends the data to a buffer that a device like a printer can later on access instead of sending it directly. This is useful when for example the application sends the data more quickly than the device can receive and process. This way, the application can send the data at its own rate without having to wait for the device to send more data.
Adjusting Adobe PDF printer properties
Returning to the problem where this spooling does not work in case of printing with Adobe PDF, you might get a message like
"Invalid Adobe PDF printer properties: Do not change spooler settings."
The next part in the error message really explains how to get this problem fixed. You can adjust the settings of the Adobe PDF printer by choosing to print directly as showed below.
Adjusting the registry
Another option is to manually or programmatically make changes to the registry. In key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\Adobe PDF\DsSpooler
you can change the string with value
printSpooling = "PrintAfterSpooled"
into
printSpooling = "PrintDirect".
which should have the same effect.
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I have tried both of the above, but neither fixes the issue. The advanced tab settings revert back to the spooling setting each time a print job is sent and fails and the registry hack seems to have no effect whatsoever.
I am rather desperate to fix this, so if you have any other ideas I would really appreciate it.
@karon
I don’t really have the time right now, but you can leave as much info about your problem here as you can and I might get back at you some time later. You can also send any of this information by contact by email.