The message says that this service is required and there is a button in the message to start the service.
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A message is now shown if the PDF24 Windows service is not started and if there is a pending print job in the printer queue of the PDF printer.
Improvement: Message if the PDF24 Windows service is not running.
The scanner import tool can now be disabled via the NoTwainImport (DWORD) option in the settings.
Improvement: Scanner import tool can be disabled.
The DocTool now asks to use the online PDF converter in case that there is no PDF printer installed on your computer which can be used to convert to PDF.
Improvement: Use the online converter if no PDF printer is installed.
The print tool in the assistant and the creator now uses the name of the printed file as print job name in Windows.
Improvement: Print job name of print tool changed.
Some users disable this service and wonder why the PDF printer is no longer working. There is also a button in the message which you can use to restart the service. The PDF24 backend now checks that and gives you a notification that this required service is stopped.
If the PDF24 Windows service is stopped and if you then print on the PDF printer, the print job will hang in the printer queue and can not be delivered.
Improvement: Notification on stopped PDF24 Windows service and available print jobs.
If you work with multiple monitors and if you close the Creator on a specific screen and if you reopen the creator, then the GUI interface opens on the screen where you have closed it.
The creator now stores the current placement of the GUI interface in the users profile so that this placement can be restored during a restart of the app.
Improvement: Window placement improvement on Creator restarts.
can join the files in the right order directly without to change the file positions. We have improved that and the interface now sorts the files automatically so that you e.g.
Files could be unsorted in the GUI interface of the Windows explorer file context menu extension if you have opened it on multiple files.
Improvement: Windows file explorer context menu extension sorts files by default.
This version brings the improvement in the behavior.
Some input fields have lost the focus in some specific circumstances if you have moved the mouse around.
Improvement: Focus behavior in save as GUI interface improved.
We have fixed this issue and the interface scales now correctly.
The GUI interface to rename a job in the creator did not scale on high DPI screens.
Improvement: DPI issue in rename job dialog fixed.
If this option is not checked, then the annotations will be merged down into the content. You can now control whether to keep them or not.
There is a new option in the save as dialog under the PDF output filter to keep annotations or to merge them with the content.
Improvement: Option to keep annotations.
Some applications set this variable during the installation and this can lead to problems in Ghostscript.
This version fixes an issue with the TEMPDIR environment variable, which is used in Ghostscript.
BugFix: Ghostscript TEMPDIR issue fixed.
Partially, this message has appeared in the background, so that it was not noticed.
If the PDF24 Windows service is required but is not started, a message pops up.
Improvement: PDF24 Windows service message box now in foreground.
There was a problem with an onfiguration here.
In the last version, PDF/A2 documents could not be created.
BugFix: PDF/A2 documents could not be created.
If the service is no longer available, then an attempt will be made to reinstall the service instead of just restarting it. The message, that the service is not active, is now a bit smarter.
In the case of PDF24, this caused the PDF printer to stop working and the service could not be started because it was no longer available.
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Windows apparently deactivates some services and resets the setting of services when a major Windows update is installed.
In case of major Windows updates, the PDF24 Windows service is apparently removed.
Improvement: PDF24 Windows service no longer available after major Windows update.
100%, then in some interfaces the bottom borders of some elements were not calculated correctly.