Cannot print from web application

[paul_haynes]

Hi,

I am developing a web application on Windows XP SP2 - IIS 5 (in production it would need to run on Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6). The app is running as the ASPNET user (would be Default User in Win 2003). This application attempts to print a pdf on the server. It does this by running the config utility to setup the filename etc.

As the web app is running as the ASPNET user, it writes the runonce.ini file to the following location: C:\Documents and Settings\PAUL\ASPNET\Bullzip\PDF Printer. The web application can see the current environment variables on the server, and APPDATA is not one of them.

I then send the document off to the printer and nothing happens. The runonce.ini file is [u]not[/u] deleted.

However, when running the application from Visual Studio, this creates a temp web server running as the logged in user, so PAUL, this process all works (and APPDATA is an evnironment variable).

Also, in the %TEMP% folder (C:\Documents and Settings\PAUL\ASPNET\Local Settings\Temp\BullZip\PDF Printer) there is a port.log and LOTS of _printer.ps files. The port.log reports that printing was successful.

My first question would be whether it is possible to have bullzip look somewhere that is not user specific for the runonce.ini. For example, could a setup value tell it to look at C:\Program Files\Bullzip\PDF Printer\ for the runonce.ini?

Secondly, where might things be going wrong if I am getting port.log saying everything has worked, and a _printer.ps file, but no PDF?

Hope this all makes sense, and thanks in advance for any response.

Paul

[hdesouky]

Did you find a solution for your problem

Currently I am facing the same problem with IIS and Bulzip

[paul_haynes]

Hi hdesouky,

Unfortunately we never found a solution - writing here was the last option we tried. I had hoped that the program developer could shed some light on these issues but that didn't happen.

We have since moved onto doing printing a different way (although not as good as pdf printing).

If you have any success with this though then please feed back here - it would be nice to know how to do this!

Thanks

[hdesouky]

could u share with me the other options u did