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This article was originally published with the steps listed below to pause the PDFCreator code as I didn't have a better method at the time.

At that point you can properly release the objects and they will close properly. The reason that this works, is that instead of checking to see when the file shows up in the destination directory, the second variation checks to see when the PDFCreator queue is clear.

#Pdfcreator alternative pdf#

Check your code to see if you have a loop near the end that looks something like this:Ĭode: 'Wait until the PDF file shows up then release the objects On March 1st, 2007, I updated all the PDFCreator articles on the site to change the way PDFCreator was released. The first thing you should check about your code: Once the process disappears, close the Task Manager.Right click PDFCreator.exe and choose End Process.Scroll down the list until you find PDFCreator.exe.Click Image Name until your list is sorted in alphabetical order.Killing the wrong process could cause damage to your system, so make sure that you have the correct process selected! (You may want to print this, as the Task Manager will sit on top of all of your open windows.) The steps to do this are listed below, but you should take great care to follow them exactly. The very first thing that we need to do to enable our code to run again is to close the running instance of PDFCreator. We can check this by going into the Task Manager, (right click the taskbar and choose Task Manager,) and verifying that a PDFCreator.exe task is running. Or, if you had previously run a PDFCreator routine, then it had not finished doing what it needed to do, so the process that was actually running on the system stayed alive.

If you opened PDFCreator manually, you may not have closed it. So if you're seeing the above error, the issue is that a PDFCreator process is running on your system.