When I click PDF-eXPLODE.exe or the Desktop shortcut to start PDF-eXPLODE, I get an error ’481 - Invalid Picture’
Viewed 232 times since Tue, Sep 16, 2025
ISSUE:  When I click the PDF-eXPLODE.exe to start the program I get an error 481 as shown in the image here:    How do I fix it?    ANSWER:  Here are the likely associated causes of this error and suggested fixes  Cause of the error  ...
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When and Why PDF Documents Must Be Password-Protected
Viewed 280 times since Wed, Dec 17, 2025
OVERVIEW: Applies to: PDF-EXPLODE users sending invoices, payroll, tax, or medical documents by email. PDF-EXPLODE enables automated email delivery of PDF documents. While many business documents (such as invoices) can be sent openly, ...
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Each time I reprint a previously produced tagged PDF using the PDFeXPLODE printer in Adobe Reader, it always fails to create an exploded PDF and email
Viewed 326 times since Tue, Dec 30, 2025
ISSUE: Occasionally I have to reprint a previously run PDF Invoice using the PDF-eXPLODE process. This is essential because once the Invoice is printed and flagged, I am unable to easily reprint the Invoice in my accounting software again. On...
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Error 62 - Input past end of file
Viewed 545 times since Thu, Aug 15, 2024
ISSUE: When I print a report to the PDFeXPLODE Pirnter, I get this strange error "Error No: 62 Input past end of file Line No 110 Procedure - 'GetPSTitle'". This was not happening last week and it does not happen if I have a PDF...
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PDF-eXPLODE Print Server appears to hang when a User’s print output arrives on the server for processing
Viewed 559 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : PDF-eXPLODE allows a single processing instance. It is possible that 2 instances of the PDF-eXPLODE.EXE exists in the Task Manager and one is causing the other to stall. Â OR The ‘Privilege Level’ in the Win 7/Win 2008 or...
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How can you create a Tag that can Fax, Email and/or Print within the same process?
Viewed 568 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : A User posed the following question: "Just reviewing the options for printing. I can see that you can set it to Email and Print, or just print and not email. It would be really nice if there was an option to ‘Email when...
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How do I print documents that have no e-mail address?
Viewed 591 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE: Some of the Clients may not have email addresses. So processing a whole batch of invoices where only some of them have email addresses, need not be a processing problem. Where an Invoice has no email address, it is necessary to Print and...
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Why is my PDF not encrypted with the password I saved in the Tag?
Viewed 599 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE I have a password Variable correctly coded in my PDF-eXPLODE document tag. I have also configured Password variable in the PDF-eXPLODE Options screen. When PDF-eXPLODE processing is done, I notice that the PDF files are not encrypted.  ...
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Can PDF-eXPLODE save archive files directly to Sharepoint or use a Sharepoint "folder" as a PDF-eMONITOR monitored folder for the purpose of exploding ?
Viewed 618 times since Mon, Nov 11, 2024
ISSUE: We currently are licensed and use PDF eXPLODE with PDF-eMONITOR to explode and email PDFs received directly from our accounting software into a specific network folder .  Can we have PDF-eMONITOR poll/monitor a Sharepoint folder as opposed...
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Which characters cannot be used in the PDF-eXPLODE tag?
Viewed 657 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : Some characters cannot be used in the tag. ANSWER : Illegal Characters In PDF-eXPLODE, the tag (without the <pdfexplode> front and back node) is used as a temporary PDF file name. Some characters cannot be used  in...
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Error: System cannot find the file specified
Viewed 664 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : When processing a report I get the error "System cannot find the specified file". The process stops until I click OK and then the PDF-eXPLODE process aborts. ANSWER : This can be due to one of the following issues: Your Anti...
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I cannot figure out why my exploded document won’t email
Viewed 752 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : I have a Word document with several pages to be exploded and emailed. However despite creating the Master PDf and the correct number of exploded PDFs, it does not email. My 'Test Connection' button works. So what is the issue?...
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How can I automatically print one or more exploded PDFs that were not emailed?
Viewed 790 times since Wed, Dec 3, 2014
ISSUE : I have a large multi-page Invoice report that must be exploded into several PDFs. Each of the exploded PDFs are assigned a destination email if the Client has an email address in the database. However there are a handful of Clients with...
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When I run PDF-eXPLODE in non-silent mode and click either ’EXPLODE NOW’ or ’CREATE PDF’ buttons, I get a Windows error
Viewed 794 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE: If you are in non-silent mode and you select PRINT from your report or document, you are prompted with the PDF-eXPLODE Print options screen. On clicking the EXPLODE NOW  or CREATE PDF button in order to continue the processing,...
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How do I stop PDF-eXPLODE from processing a job? I terminated the PDF-eXPLODE in the Windows Task Manager but every time I start up it resumes
Viewed 839 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE: How do I stop PDF-eXPLODE from processing a job? I terminated the PDF-eXPLODE process in the Windows Task manager but every time I start up PDF-eXPLODE, the job processing resumes. ANSWER: The .TMP file is the source output...
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How can I debug any processing issues?
Viewed 877 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE: PDF-eXPLODE has 2 logs files generated during processing - What does each one do and where do I locate them? ANSWER: Each LOG file in PDF-eXPLODE has a specific purpose. Most processing errors can can be debugged by use of either PDF...
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Error: 75 Path/File access error
Viewed 890 times since Wed, Nov 26, 2014
ISSUE: We are using PDF Exploded Version 3, server license, This has been running fine on a server for quite a while now, and all of the sudden we have begun receIving error messages on the server every now and then. This happens when a user prints...
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When I drag and drop a PDF on to PDF-eXPLODE window, it starts printing to the PDFeXPLODE printer instead of splitting and emailing
Viewed 925 times since Mon, Dec 12, 2022
ISSUE: I have been dragging and dropping PDFs on the PDF-eXPLODE print queue window. What normally happens next is the program immediately starts exploding (or splitting) the pages of the PDFs and finally emails them. Lately, the moment I drag and...
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I can’t get PDF drag and drop to work when I drop a tagged PDF onto the PDF-eXPLODE Print Queue window
Viewed 1212 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
Issue: If you Drag and Drop a PDF which has an embedded PDF-eXPLODE tag on each page, the exploding process does not commence immediately as it should. Generally the mouse cursor should display as a '+' over the Printer queue surface...
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How do I use PDF-eXPLODE with Microsoft Excel?
Viewed 1289 times since Thu, Dec 4, 2014
ISSUE: Microsoft Excel  worksheets do not have preset pagination like a Word document. The page formatting is generally done during the print stage. Where or how can I insert a PDF-eXPLODE tag so it appears on each page of the Excel report? ...
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How can I clear the print jobs queue and restart PDF-eXPLODE as it appears frozen?
Viewed 1315 times since Sat, Oct 1, 2016
ISSUE: Our PDF-eXPLODE program seems to be stuck or frozen. If we try to open the program from the desktop shortcut, screen shown below opens with all outstanding jobs and after a very brief wait, the window closes and we are getting nowhere.Â...
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HTML based Hyperlinks do not get preserved when my document is exploded to PDF
Viewed 1445 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE: In the Report  (e.g. Crystal Reports) or a document (MS Word) to be exploded by PDF-eXPLODE,  any text (for example "Click Here") that is configured as an  HTML Hyperlink (highlight text, right click and select  'Hyperlink&...
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I am getting a "Run time error 70 - permission denied"
Viewed 2140 times since Fri, Dec 5, 2014
ISSUE : I am getting a "Run time error 70 - permission denied".. This seems to happen each time I am either about to create a PDF or the program says "Processing Client documents" ANSWER : You may not have permissions to write...
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PDF-eXPLODE is not splitting nor emailing any PDFs
Viewed 2304 times since Fri, Aug 14, 2015
ISSUE: Â I click Print in my accounting report and I see the report output prepared by Windows. Sometimes nothing happens; other times, I see PDF-exPLODE start creating a PDF but nothing further happens. The program closes with no exploded PDFs...
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