Set up user accounts that can be used to store and share your files after conversion. Please see the following sections to learn how to set up the different accounts.
Click the Add SMTP Account button
Enter the information needed to connect to your SMTP Server
Email address: Enter your sending email address.
User name: The account’s username, that is often the same as your email address.
Host: The address of your outbox server (SMTP) according to your provider.
Port: The port number of your SMTP server (common numbers are 587, 25 or 465).
SSL: Enable SSL/TLS encryption.
Set password: You can save your password in order to skip any further interaction to send the email. Otherwise PDFCreator will ask you for your SMTP email password during the print job. For automatic saving, you must set all required passwords.
Warning
PDFCreator does not support connections using StartTLS. Only SSL/TLS is supported.
Note
The passwords are encrypted before they are stored by PDFCreator. The encryption can be reverted though and is only intended to avoid plaintext passwords to be seen in the Registry.
Tip
Please keep in mind, that automated profiles can “silently” send emails!
Click the Add Dropbox Account button
Enter your Dropbox credentials (if you are already logged in, this will be skipped)
Allow PDFCreator to connect with Dropbox
Note
PDFCreator doesn’t save your Dropbox password. During the authentication, PDFCreator will receive an access token to access your user account to upload files. This access token will remain on your machine and will be encrypted before it is saved.
Click the Add a Microsoft Account button
Outlook Web Access (OWA): This action creates email drafts and stores them in your outlook drafts account
Direct send: Allows Outlook Web Access to directly send emails
OneDrive: This action uploads files to your personal Microsoft web storage called OneDrive
SharePoint: This action uploads files to shared web storage (drives) that have been made available by SharePoint sites
Offline access: A mandatory permission that allows PDFCreator to store your user credentials so you don’t have to login everytime you perform an action using a Microsoft account.
Read and write emails: This permission allows PDFCreator to create and draft emails, but it does not permit sending them. The email will only be saved as a draft.
Send emails: Allows PDFCreator to send emails directly (without saving the created email as draft).
Read and write files: Allows the connected Microsoft account to read and write (create) files only on OneDrive.
Read sites: Allows PDFCreator to access all SharePoint sites available to your account.
Read and write all files: Allows the connected Microsoft account to read and write (create) files on all systems including Sharepoint drives.
Note
Please be aware that once you give PDFCreator permissions to your Microsoft account, they cannot be removed from within PDFCreator. To do this, you would have to sign in to your account on the Microsoft portal, and remove the permissions from there.
Click on Request Permissions
Enter your Microsoft account credentials in the separate window
Allow PDFCreator to connect with your Microsoft account, with the selected permissions
Warning
If the corresponding actions are not used within 90 days, the account may lose its permissions, which will require you to request them again.
Note
PDFCreator doesn’t save your Microsoft password. During the “offline” authentication process, PDFCreator will receive an access token to access your user account with your preferred permissions. This access token remains on your machine and is encrypted before being saved.
Click the Add FTP Account button
Select the type of connection (FTP / SFTP).
Enter the host name and optionally the port of your server, e.g. ftp.mycompany.local:2121.
Enter the credentials needed to log into your server.
Click the Checkbox if you’d like to always request the password during the upload.
Note
The passwords are encrypted before they are stored by PDFCreator. The encryption can be reverted though and is only intended to avoid plaintext passwords to be seen in the Registry.
For automatic saving, you must set all required passwords.
Click the Add HTTP Account button
Enter the URL address of your HTTP Server (starting with http:// or https://).
Check Basic Authentication if you need to use your credentials in order to upload files to the server
Check Don’t save password and request it during upload if you don’t wish to save the password. PDFCreator will ask for the password every time you upload a file.
Note
The passwords are encrypted before they are stored by PDFCreator. The encryption can be reverted though and is only intended to avoid plaintext passwords to be seen in the Registry.
For automatic saving, you must set all required passwords.
Click the Add Time Server Account button
Enter the URL of the Time Server you’d like to use
Check Secured Time Server and enter your Username and Password if you want to use a secured time server.
You will need to set up accounts in the GUI and add them to a profile in order to use them in the COM Interface. Please refer to the section COM Interface User Manual if you want to learn more about the COM Interface.