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After you install novaPDF it is recommended to restart your computer if the final window of the installation wizard tells you so. If novaPDF does not appear in your Printers and Faxes list after installation (or you get Printer not installed when trying to create PDFs), it means something went wrong with the installation.

The page related settings have a different behavior than the other settings (save, compression, fonts, security,...). While the last are specific to the novaPDF printer driver, the page related settings are used for all printer drivers and can be set by system calls (check the DEVMODE Windows structure).

This tutorial shows how to share novaPDF in a network so that other client computers can connect to it and send documents for conversion to PDF.

Create pdf files without diplaying the Save As dialog.

Hide novaPDF printer in the list of Printers when printing via novaPDF SDK.

If you want to reinstall novaPDF Server from the client computers and from the server itself too, there are a couple of steps you should follow to make sure you succeed with the reinstallations, including making sure you first remove all the previous installations / versions completely.

If you want to reinstall novaPDF on the client computers and on the server itself, these are the steps you should follow to make sure you succeed with the reinstallations. Instructions remove all the previous installations / versions completely.

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When integrating novaPDF SDK in a 32bit application that will be distributed on Windows x64 systems too, you have to take into account some aspects regarding the default behavior of our installer. One of these is the novaPDF installer that contains both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the novaPDF driver and of the COM interface. Because of its built-in automatic detection, when installing novaPDF on Windows x64 computers (via your application), the 64bit version of the driver and COM interface are installed (and not the 32bit version).

Converting publications created with Microsoft Publisher to PDF is easily done by installing a program that does the actual PDF conversion, called a virtual PDF printer. If you don't have a PDF printer installed, use the Download page to download and install novaPDF.

This tutorial shows how to convert a project created with Microsoft Office Project to a PDF file. novaPDF is a PDF converter that allows creating PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing. If you don't have novaPDF installed, use the Download page to download and install it.

This tutorial shows how to you can convert PPT to PDF (PowerPoint presentations to PDF). You can open your PowerPoint presentation and with a simple click convert the entire presentation to PDF for easier sharing by using the novaPDF conversion addin or the print option.