I have downloaded an evaluation copy of EO and put together a prototype to test the HTML to PDF product. I am developing on Visual Studio 2012. I have installed the EO.Pdf 6.0.31.2 version using a download from yesterday.

When I run on a physical system, things work fine. When I run the same code on another developer's VS2012 running on a VM I get the exception below. When I deploy this to a development application server that is on a VM it works.

Any ideas on what is causing this to fail on the Visual Studio on a VM?


{EO.Pdf.HtmlToPdfException: Conversion failed. Failed to initialize conversion (1). ---> EO.Pdf.Internal.aoe: Failed to initialize conversion (1).
at EO.Pdf.Internal.ma.a(ma A_0, apq A_1)
at EO.Pdf.Internal.ma.a(afp A_0, Boolean A_1)
at EO.Pdf.Internal.ma.a(afp A_0)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at EO.Pdf.Internal.ma.a(afp A_0)
at EO.Pdf.HtmlToPdfSession..ctor(HtmlToPdfOptions A_0)
at EO.Pdf.HtmlToPdfSession.Create(HtmlToPdfOptions options)
at EO.Pdf.HtmlToPdf.ConvertHtml(String html, PdfDocument doc, HtmlToPdfOptions options)
at EO.Pdf.HtmlToPdf.ConvertHtml(String html, PdfDocument doc)
at EO.Pdf.Mvc.MVCToPDF.a.a()
at EO.Pdf.Mvc.MVCToPDF.a()
at EO.Pdf.Mvc.RenderAsPDFActionFilter.OnResultExecuted()
at EO.Pdf.Mvc4.RenderAsPDFAttribute.System.Web.Mvc.IResultFilter.OnResultExecuted(ResultExecutedContext filterContext)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass1a.<>c__DisplayClass1c.<InvokeActionResultWithFilters>b__19()
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass1a.<>c__DisplayClass1c.<InvokeActionResultWithFilters>b__19()
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult)
at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass25.<>c__DisplayClass2a.<BeginInvokeAction>b__20()
at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass25.<BeginInvokeAction>b__22(IAsyncResult asyncResult)}

The systems that run Visual Studio are Windows Seven.

I did find some information in the Event Viewer during these.

In general they reflect what is in the stack trace. I do see an entry as follows:

The directory specified for caching compressed content C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\iisexpress\IIS Temporary Compressed Files\Clr4IntegratedAppPool is invalid. Static compression is being disabled.

After a lot of trial, we have found that the thin client software that we are using is preventing this from running. We are working on finding the fix for that software.