Aug 04 2008
How to configure the LiveCycle PDF Generator ES print driver?
Disease:
So you have installed LiveCycle ES Update 1 that includes a new feature for PDF Generator, a print driver for windows. This allows you to select the Adobe LiveCycle ES printer from your printer list. The print job results in a PDF file that is centrally generated on a configured LiveCycle ES Server. Here is a screenshot of the “select printer” dialogue within MS-Word.
Now it is clear how to initiate a PDF conversion process. But where does your file end-up?
Prescription:
There is a couple of things to take into account.
1. When installing the print driver via http://servername:port-number/pdfg-ipp/install you will be asked to provide a username. The account that is used here is an account that is known within LiveCycle ES (either synchronized with your directory, or a native account). The email-address that is known within LiveCycle ES is the one that is used to return the results to.
2. On the server-side you will need to configure a mail server that can be used for sending the results. Typically this is an smtp server that will be used. Now you will need to configure this using the LiveCycle ES Admin UI. Go to “Services” -> “Applications and Services” -> “Service Management”. Now look for a service called “provider.email_sendmail_service” and click on it. You will find the screen as shown below.
Just to make sure stop and start the service, and you should be fine.
Tips to stay healthy:
Just remember, when deploying this solution accross your organization, make sure that the users install the print driver with an account that points to their email address. Don’t use one address for everybody. Lastly, make sure that every account that is used, also has the proper user rights assigned to it. (Or even better, work with the groups and roles available within the User Management)
Do you know how to configure LiveCycle PDFGenerator IPP on Mac?
What port is used by LiveCycle IPP ?
Any idea?
Currently the wizzard described in this post only supports Windows 32 bits systems. On the Mac you will get an error that says “IPP Client installer curently only supports Windows Platform”. It uses port 8080 by default unless you changed this.
I am not aware how you can add a network printer on a Mac and if you can point it to LiveCycle ES.
Is there anyway to get pass-through authentication to work with the IPP print driver? We have a policy to force enterprise password changes on a regular basis. The LiveCycle printer gets locked out when the IPP port credentials and that in LiveCycle are not sync’d. The user does not even get a chance to change the password in the IPP client at this point.