Microsoft Office Setup

This example shows how to make Microsoft Word ready for server use. The other office products can also be configured just the same way.

All you need to do here is to make sure that there is no pop-up dialogs from Office products during PDF conversion.

Microsoft Word Setup

Note: If you have previously modified Microsoft Word setting through Distributed COM Configuration Properties, you need to set it back to the orignal setting (especially in the Identity tab, it must be set to The launching user) . If you are not sure, we recommend re-installing Microsoft Word.

1. Log in to the computer as easyPDF6User (or the account you created in easyPDF SDK Loader Setup section).
2. Start Microsoft Word. This forces the application to register itself.
3. Close all the pop-ups that appear during Word initialization.
   
   
   
   
4. Hide the Office Assistant.
   
   
   
   
5. For Microsoft Word 2003, configure the Customer Feedback Options (and also the other service options as necessary).
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Exit Microsoft Word.

Performance consideration

If you have any 3rd party Word macro or add-ins, we recommend that you remove them because they often add an extra overhead to Microsoft Word and slows down the whole PDF conversion process. 

Known Issues

Under Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server, running Microsoft Office 2007, the Office-specific PrintJob classes do not work when running from a system service or a web service. This affects ASP and ASP.NET alike.

We are currently working on a resolution. In the meanwhile, we recommend one of the following workarounds to temporarily address this problem:

• Consider running Windows 2003 Server, which does not exhibit this issue.
• If you must use Vista or Windows 2008 Server, please downgrade to Office 2003.
• GenericPrintJob works under Vista with Office 2007, although it does not offer any of the advanced Office-specific settings. It will not convert Microsoft Word hyperlinks and bookmarks into PDF either.