I am trying to print coupons from a coupon website that only allow you to print the coupons once, and of course whenever I want the printer to work the best, the print job gets stuck in the queue. Because I will lose the print job if I use net stop spooler and net start spooler, I would like to save the queued print job as a PDF file so that I can clear the queue and then trying printing the PDF. Is this possible? I have gone to the C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS folder and copied a file named FP00000.spl from there. In the same folder, there was a file named FP00000.SHD that I wanted to copy, but I couldn't because it was being used by the print spooler. What can I do with the spl file to get the PDF file that I want? I have tried uploading the file to Google Cloud Print, but it does not work.
Windows – Save Print Job in Queue as PDF
pdfprinterprintingwindows
Related Solutions
I had a similar issue just last week, labels being printed just vanished form the print list, and then nothing, printer itself is working, calibrated etc.
And i found out that, i had 2 configured ports for one Label printer (I re-craetedthe view, with some mspaint magic :P) This issue was on more than 5 desktops, so something to do with a Win7 Enteprise x64 image that we use ... but... onwards
Solution : if you see this issue, delete the local port (how?), by changing the printers default port to LPT1-3, click Apply, then choose USB00* Local Port ( click once ), and then press DELETE should remove the secondary un-needed port.
Press Apply again, just to be safe, Reboot PC, check again, if the problems does not persist, and try printing :)
I had a similar issue and solved it with Google's support advice. In my case, there were two printers with the same name and that caused a problem. Also, you do not note what OS you are using, but there is a requirement for Windows XP to have sp 3. I am also using Google Chrome as suggested by Google.
Their suggestions:
Make sure your Google Cloud Print connector is running on a computer that is turned on and using the latest version of Google Chrome.
Make sure your printer is on and connected to the computer running the Google Cloud Print connector.
Make sure you're printing to the correct printer. Sometimes, there may be duplicate printers shown.
In Google Chrome, select Settings and click the Show advanced settings link. In the "Google Cloud Print" section, click Sign out of Google Cloud Print. Visit the Google Cloud Print management page and click on Printers. Delete any duplicate printers (printers with the exact same name) and then sign in to Google Cloud Print again.
Best Answer
You can't save the print job as a pdf. Print Queues don't work like that. Depending on when your spooler crashes/hangs, the files may not even be what you want.
The SHD filetype tells Windows/Printer what the job settings are for that particular print job.
The SPL filetype is a file that tells Windows/Printer how to draw out what you sent in. This is the file that we actually care about.
SPL is unfortunately not an entirely open protocol. Microsoft does publish it's standard from time to time but it can't be relied on not to change. As such, not too many programs exist to deal with it.
You can save print queue jobs. If you open up the Properties dialog box for your printer, you can navigate into the advanced tab and enable keep printed documents. By doing so, it will keep the job in the spooler folder and you can access them later.
If you want to "print" a document out as a pdf you can either use Google Chrome and choose the option save to pdf or you can install a "fake" printer queue that you can send jobs to like a normal printer. One option for the latter would be a program like CutePDF.
Now, to recover from your SPL file. It's not entirely hopeless, there are a few programs that exist to read from these files. I recommend a program called SPLViewer. The website is in German but the tool works very well. Can export/print from it.