Posted by Barbara Brazil on February 09, 2012 at 15:56:40:
We've gotten a lot of questions lately about how to choose a folder for your CometPDF printer. Here's a short description of how pdf printers work in that regard that will hopefully clear up some of the confusion.
When you setup a pdf printer (whether CometPDF or Adobe or PDFfactory) you tell the install program where you want it to put the pdf docs. This has nothing to do with Comet at this point. When you print to that printer whether from Comet or outside of Comet, the doc will end up in that folder.
Now Comet enters the picture. If your pdf printer is going to be used as a DocMgr archive, you configure it using SYSGEN and assign the archive to a Comet folder - like SPL. So, when you print to that printer, the pdf printing software produces the doc and stores it in the first folder you assigned to it. Then Comet sees that it's an archive printer it makes a copy of the doc and puts it in the Comet folder (SPL in the above example). That's the copy that DocMgr uses. So, you see you end up with 2 copies of the document. If you delete the document thru DocMgr it only deletes the copy in SPL.
If you're only going to use the CometPDF printer for DocMgr archiving, you can tell the CometPDF install that you want the docs to go to $(CATEMP). The beauty of using $(CATEMP) is that the copy of the docs in there will automatically be deleted everytime you run Comet. You won't end up with 2 copies of the doc hanging around forever!
In SYSGEN you'll say something like:
Printer = Lfc,p ,x,SPL:CometPDF ,Comet PDF;
This tells Comet to store the doc in the SPL directory.
Now, if you're going to use the CometPDF printer outside of Comet then you don't want to use $(CATEMP) as the pdf folder because the documents will be erased by Comet. ;-)
One last comment about $(CATEMP)... Only files in $(CATEMP) are erased by Comet. Files in any subfolders of $(CATEMP) are not.
Hope that helps!
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