Is it possible to execute from a service

[rodrigueLeopold]

Hello,
Thanks for your great tool... I have a problem. I'm running a server on a window machine in order to translate word files into PDFs. It works great as long as I execute it with an active windows session.
As soon as I run it as a service (I run the service with my account to avoid rights problems) without an active windows session. It fails. It's like if Word needed an active user to be logged in, in order to treat the word file.
I'm getting the error : (The french part can be translated in english as "command not available : no document is opened")

[INFO] FileToConvert:C:\test.docx
[INFO] OutputFile:C:\test.pdf
[INFO] Ext17

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Error: EOleException Commande non disponible�: aucun document n'est ouvert

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Error: Exiting with Error Code : 220

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I'm not quite sur this is the best place to talk about this, but do you know a work around that enables working as a service ?

[tobya]

I think this is a funny issue with windows and word, take a look at these links

particuarily this answer pointing to a stack overflow question

• Not working via Windows Task Scheduler #46 (comment)

other options

take a look at #46 and #57 to see if the solutions offered in the thread will work for you. It seems possibly to be a windows issue.

[rodrigueLeopold]

Thanks a lot. You saved my day... I couldn't find the solution myself because I was searching for the french error message...
Creating the folder C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop worked for me.