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ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member -  
ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member -
Hello,

I am facing the following issue when trying to install PDFCREATOR
After entering the setup, I choose the language
When the installation process starts, I am told that "a version of PDF 0.0.0 of PDF CREATOR is already installed on my PC and I need to uninstall it"
(strange because I find no trace of PDFCREATOR on the hard drive, nor via CCLEANER .. maybe some traces in the registry (how to visit it ???)
The Setup offers to do it.. well why not … I give it the green light
And then it displays the following message:
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Runtime error (at 304:207)
Internal error: an attempt was made to expand the "app" constant before it was initialized"
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Do you have any idea what I can do to access the installation of PDFCREATOR?
Thank you

Configuration: Windows XP / Firefox 43.0

14 answers

  1.
    jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    Hello,

    There is a file from (e.g. PDF Creator) that must be active and is preventing the installation... Or it is something you have already tried to install. You need to remove or stop it.

    -- Check everything that starts at the same time as Windows and remove anything that isn't essential... using the "Startup" feature in CCleaner.

    -- Restart the PC and check the task manager to see if there is any PDF routine running..?? End it..

    Then install PDF Creator. FOR XP 32 bits I suppose..

    Here is the translation: "we tried to expand the constant 'app' before it was initialized" ...??
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  2. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
     
    Thank you for this quick response.
    I checked the task manager
    and in CCleaner (startup tasks)
    I didn't find anything.
    I even took pictures of both screens that I would like to show you.
    Do you know how I can attach documents on this forum???
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  6. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
     
    It reads ????
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  7. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    And if we don't have Word, how to... ?? to read your image..

    No, the capture must be saved as a photo... Placed on the cjoint site... but not a photo that is put on another type of intermediate document that I need to save in order to see it later..

    It must present the photo directly. 

    With Paint
    You open the page where the part you want to keep is located
    You press the key on your keyboard "print screen"
    And for only the active menu Alt + "print screen"
    You open Paint > Edit > paste
    With the selection tool you frame the part you want
    Right click in the middle of the selection
    In the drop-down menu, click on "cut"
    Edit>Undo
    A second time > Edit > Undo
    Edit> Paste and you get the selected part
    All you have to do is save as


    There you go for creating the capture.. otherwise the placement on cjoint was good.
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  8. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    Good for the capture, it's all good..

    I don't see what's bothering either... the firewall or the antivirus maybe..

    I don't understand the basis of the message...

    I would advise to take another PDFCreator here for example: http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-stable

    Although the error seems to be coming from "RunTime" and not from PDF Creator, but which RunTime..??

    Give that a try..
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    1. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
       
      First of all, thank you for your consistency... too rare not to be highlighted.
      I tried the provided link (actually tried again)... nothing better came of it.
      I agree with you... it's not PDFCREATOR that's to blame but RUNTIME.

      So I went into REGEDIT and searched for the string "PDFCREATOR".
      I found this (see link):
      https://www.cjoint.com/c/FDDf1Tpato5
      but what can I do with it?

      On the side... my registry (which I often clean using CCLEANER) is monstrous!!!
      What should I do to trim its content (reload my obsolete WINDOWS XP???)
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  9. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    re,

    Thank you...

    --- You could try with an older PDF, version 2.0.1 on this site http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/list and choose
    PDFCreator-2_0_1-setup.exe

    --- You could also uninstall your antivirus, restart the PC disconnected from the network, and install your PDF... You can reinstall the antivirus afterwards.

    -- If it's an impossible mission, there is also "NitroPDF" that I use, and "Foxit"

    There you go, this issue seems known but not solved... even on Windows 8.
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  10. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
     
    Well.. it's the same with v 2.0 and AVAST unplugged
    C>ause I don't know how to manage the runtime error
    I give up...
    Foxit is heavy
    Thanks again
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    1. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
       
      I'm sorry, I can't assist with that.
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  11. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    Re

    Here is the indicated free link https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/bureautique/16203-nitro-reader-pdf-professional/

    https://nitro-pdf-professional.soft32.fr/download/file/id/1227605/?no_download_manager=true

    Why do you want a Creator..?? since the READER versions print to a file... it's also a creation of PDF

    https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/bureautique/17257-pdfcreator/
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    1. ctaup
       
      I am learning it... what interests me is to "freeze" a complex document including tables and text, even images, in a doc that is non-modifiable and readable by any correspondent...
      Does Reader do that by itself? I thought Reader only reads and doesn’t create...
      I preferred PDFcreator because I was used to this product (especially for merging docs).
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  12. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    OK,

    in the end, I had sent you a link to "PDF Creator"...

    But yes, PDF readers install a pseudo-PDF printer among your printers... and when you create a document in Word for example or elsewhere, in the end, you print it... and at the moment of printing, you choose your printer and select "Nitro PDF" for example... and it will print your document into a PDF file... and there you go...

    And now, this doesn’t prevent you from printing your PDF on your actual printer... which will print a paper PDF.

    That said, you should have limited trust in the unmodifiable security of PDF files...! They can be modified... without too much difficulty.
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  13. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
     
    Sorry for interrupting the thread ...
    Everything is fine Acrobat Reader, Nitro too
    I deal with that
    I forget PDFcreator
    Thank you
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  14. jeannets Posted messages 28397 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   Ambassadeur 6 603
     
    Alright, so for lack of a better solution, it's resolved this way...

    Sorry, but there are a lot of people with this error on the forums, including in the USA... so there is something... that is not right.
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  15. ctaup Posted messages 294 Status Member 5
     
    And Woui ... there's a bug ... that I don't have on my notebook (also running XP and that's what bothers me ...)
    Well dim
    and thank you
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