I have tried to use the sandboxie trace and tried various settings but I just can't get this to work...

I use a print driver program called FinePrint. It works fine in a non-sandboxed application. It worked fine before with Sandboxie, but not now - probably since I updated to version 3.

When I try to print something it either can't find the temp file or has a 'createscalableresource' error. I have tried OpenPipePath to the NamedPipe in the sandboxie trace output but that didn't work. When I try to print from my sandboxed firefox it gives me these errors. Especially on certain pages - even something simple such as Google's homepage. MOST BIZARRELY it will print the page when I visit sandboxie.com. I am at a total loss at this point.

Does anyone else use this program and/or have this error?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Is this program available for download?

There is a trial version at www.fineprint.com

I have the program as well with similar problems.

I get a message from fineprint: Could not locate Fineprint dispatcher......

-muecke

It also will not print to my PDF printer. It worked fine with earlier versions.

I am using v3.02. Back again to 2.86. This is getting ridiculous.

I don't use FinePrint, but 3.02.27 is working fine with my PDF printer (PDFCreator). The problem must be program specific.

3.025 worked okay with my PDF printer, Nitro PDF. It turns out that I did an update to Nitro and it stopped initializing the printer when printing from a sandboxed Firefox session.

I think it has something to do with the Nitro update. When I use the Docucom PDF printer, it works okay.

However, it will not print to Fineprint from Firefox when it is sandboxed.

That's a concern for me, because I am planning to purchase NitroPDF. In fact, I had planned to buy it this week!

Please let us know if you get this apparent conflict between Sandboxie and NitroPDF resolved. I'll hold off purchasing Nitro until I'm sure I will be able to use it with Sandboxie.

Tzuk, you can download a trial version of NitroPDF at http://www.nitropdf.com , if you want to give it a try.

Sure, I'll look into NitroPDF and tell you what I get.

Lets not forget about testing Fineprint

And, yes, as stated earlier, a trial version can be downloaded.

Thanks for all the comments - if even to let me know I'm not alone

docfleetwood, muecke, Silver0066: Regard FinePrint.

First I added an exclusion to allow a sandboxed Firefox to find and use the unsandboxed FinePrint dispatcher program:



Then it tuned out that Firefox first creates a temporary file (which is probably a representation of the Web page to print), and tells the FinePrint dispatcher where to find that file. But if the temporary file was created in the sandbox, and the unsandboxed FirePrint dispatcher can't find it.

So the second exclusion necessary is:



The part "%Local Settings%\Temp" comes from the user account setting for TEMP environment variable. I will add "%TEMP%" to Sandboxie so future versions can be configured thus: OpenFilePath=%TEMP%\~FP*



NitroPDF took more time to download, so I haven't tried that one yet.

Thank you Tzuk. That fix worked worked just fine on Fineprint.

I look forward to the Nitro PDF problem.

Silver

NitroPDF works, but one has to launch the PDF monitor in the sandbox, before one can print to it from the same sandbox. The PDF monitor program is adequately called NitroPDFPrinterMonitor.exe and located in the Nitro PDF installation folder, for me that was C:\Program Files\Nitro PDF\Professional.

I think the idea of running the PDF monitor program itself sandboxed is also applicable to FinePrint (which calls it a PDF dispatcher rather than monitor), and is probably a better solution that opening paths to temporary folders.

It's just a shame neither of these programs create shortcut icons to these executables, which means it's a bit of a hassle to launch them sandboxed.

Best approach would be to create a (real) desktop shortcut to NitroPDFPrinterMonitor.exe (or its FinePrint counterpart), then use Sandboxie Control -> Settings menu -> Shell Integration -> Add Shortcut Icons to create a sandboxed shortcut of that shortcut to the monitor program.

Thanks Tzuk!

It was that darn second exclusion that I couldn't figure out.

Incidentally, when I try to run the fineprint dispatcher sandboxed it gives me an error that it can not unload the fineprint driver. So it seems it can not be run both sandboxed and not sandboxed, which would make it quite a pain to go back and forth as necessary. However, your other solution seems to work nicely.

I'm running the new version of FinePrint 6 with exactly the same issue of not being able to print from a sandboxed browser.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to make the above solutions work - probably because I'm missing something! Where exactly do I enter the exclusions mentioned to "trust" FinePrint?

Many thanks.

Go to Sandbox Sandbox -> Resource Access -> File Access -> Direct Access,
click Edit,
enter:
%Local Settings%\Temp\~FP*

Let's see if it makes any difference.