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If you have downloaded file: pdfing4setup.msi and there is no prevous installation of PDFing on this PC, then you only need to double-click on this file to begin the installation process. Once completed, you will find a short-cut to PDFing on your desk-top.

If you have previously installed PDFing on this PC, please refer to our document upgrading to PDFing version 4.

Users running Windows 2000 or later should open the Sharing form using menu option [File|Sharing] and use its controls to install and uninstall the PDFing service. You may use this form to share the PDFing directories across the network so that NT service clients can connect to the service from remote systems. This form also allows you to select new locations for the directory containing the PDFing configuration and markup files and for the directory containing the spooled-files queued by PDFing.

User running Window NT4, must open the directory where PDFing has been installed and double-click on file: ServiceInstall.bat. After a second or two, you should see the following message:

Then open the "Service" control-panel applet, select service: PDFingMailer and display its properties.

This form allows you to start and stop the PDFingMailer service. Additionally, you can select the start-up and log-on options to suit your particular requirements.

You can use also the SC.EXE command (see Windows SDK help) to control PDFingMailer on a remote machine.

In order to view the spooled-files converted by the PDFingMailer service program, you should execute program PDFingCntrl.exe from the "PDFing" directory on the system running the service. Once started, PDFingCntrl.exe displays a PDFing icon in the windows icon tray. You may right click on this icon to display a pop-up menu, or double click on this icon to display a window showing the status of the service.

You may put a short cut to this program in your local start-up program folder, but it must refer to the copy of PDFingCntrl.exe installed on the PC running the service. Do not make copies of PDFingContrl.exe.

The PDFingMailer service logs its activities to the "Event-Log" of the machine on which it is running. You should use the "Event Viewer" application, (under "Administrative Tools" on the Windows Start Menu) to see the event messages relating to application services, including PDFingMailer. You can sort and filter these messages from the "View" menu of this applet.

PDFingMailer will send event messages grouped into types & categories. The types are "Error", "Warning" and "Informational". The categories are "General" relating to starting and stopping, "Lpd" relating to spooled-files received, "Cvt" relating to PDF document creation, "Keep" relating to locally stored documents and "Smtp" relating to e-mailed documents. You can use the [Logging] page of the configuration program to select which events should be logged.

Please be aware that the Event Log can get full. If this happens, then new Event Messages will not be added and the statistics provided by the server status screen will be incorrect.

If you need to un-install the PDFing service, open the directory where PDFing has been installed and double-click on file: ServiceUninstall.bat. After a second or two, you should see the following message:

You will need to un-install the PDFing service, if you re-install PDFing into a different directory from the one where the service was previously installed.