Converting documents to PDF fails

If, in the CRM, the conversion of documents to PDF by means of Windward (default driver) fails, you should keep in mind that Windward was originally intended as a program for generating documents from templates and not for converting documents to PDF files. Windward cannot represent all formatting possible in Microsoft Word analogously in a PDF document.

You can solve this with the help of Ghostscript and a PDF printer driver (CutePDF-Writer) on your Windows computer. For this, you will need to install Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) and CutePDF (http://www.cutepdf.com/), and set up the following variables on the server:

  • PSA_PDF_CNV_MTH=GHOSTSCRIPT
  • PSA_PDF_CNV_PRI=CutePDF Writer
  • PSA_GS_EXE=gs

On their client, the user can select an installed printer, see My data/Configuration/PDF configuration. Then, when converting a document (not a data sheet or report) to PDF, the installed Windows printer will be used for generating the PDF.