OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

ihuntdux — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:07:49 GMT

This is great! I just upgraded to Vista (x64) and came to the upsetting realization that the printer driver was not supported. How exciting that this was posted literally as I was surfing and trying to find a solution.

After toying with it a bit the only issues I can find is that if a file is more than one page it inserts into OneNote as a page with subpages rather all on one page like the Send to OneNote option. I can deal with that. I also had a pdf file that was all garbled when it inserted into OneNote. I tried another pdf as well as a Word file and an internet page printout with no issues so it may be the actual pdf file rather than the program.

Great fix! Thanks for using your spare time to satisfy all of us cranky OneNote users.

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64-bit "Print to OneNote" solution now available

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Good old David Rasmussen who is Group Program Manager of OneNote has built (in his "spare" time) a way

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

jgrabow157 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:02:55 GMT

I have a Tablet PC running Vista Ultimate, and I also have OneNote. I was very excited to read about xps2onenote, but after I tried it for the first time, I received the following error:

"had an error in file change handler... The type initializer for 'XPS2OneNote.OneNoteHelper' threw an exception."

Any ideas???

Thank you,

Joe Grabowski

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:24:33 GMT

@Joe

I'll take a look at this. A couple of quick questions. What version of OneNote do you have installed? I presume it is OneNote 2007? Do you have the SP1 (Service Pack 1) installed? You should be able to see in the help about information.

From the exception message, it's possibly an error in the way the code initializes its reference to the OneNote app. You could also try a machine restart and see if it still happens.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

jgrabow157 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:37:37 GMT

@David

It's OneNote 2007 (12.0.6316.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.5000), part of the Office Ultimate suite.

I'll try restarting the computer like you suggested, and will post the results of that later.

Thanks for looking into this! I love OneNote, and I've been using it for a few years now, even before I got the Tablet PC last fall. To me, it's an indispensable part of my everyday life -- I returned to college last year after a 20-year "break", and am taking all my classes online. OneNote has been a tremendous help and resource to me in keeping it all straight and organized.

But I digress...

Thanks again,

Joe

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

jgrabow157 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:38:31 GMT

You were right! A reboot fixed the problem! Thanks so much!

Can't wait for the next version of Outlook!

Take care,

Joe

A new 64-bit Send to OneNote Printer powertoy

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re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

xpfanboy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:56:42 GMT

Can you do a similar personal free time project to convert OneNote 2007 files to 2003 and vice versa? The incompatible format is another PITA.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

littlefield — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:47:58 GMT

The 64 bit driver works like a charm and deserves the "Wow!" factor accolades. Much thanks to the developer who gave up his free time to get this working on our behalf. I'm using it right now to export some of my Evernote files into Onenote via printing. Though there should be a dedicated Onenote importer for Evernote .enex files which maintains the tags and note titles but that's another story.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

BigGuyRaleigh — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:41:17 GMT

Many thanks! I am new to onenote and quickly found it awesome. I just got my first 64bit machine and not having printing to onenote capability was a pain but a quick search and voila!

The download was exactly as you indicated. Works great.

My only question:

In your notes on codeplex you indicate the software will clean out the folders once sent to onenote. Mine does not clean the folder. Not a big deal since this is easy to do but I thought I'd mention it.

Thanks again for spending your personal time on this. I really apprecaite it and it saves a LOT of snipping tool time! Tell them I said you could take a week off work, with pay, for doing this!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

gwatts — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:55:39 GMT

Hey -- could you put up the source code? Personally I don't care how "clean" it is - you should see some of my projects! But I'm getting a silent error and I'd like to be able to download and debug...

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

jstansfi — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:38:42 GMT

Many thanks for this. I suspect it'll be a bridge to far to get this working on win 7 rc 7100, but I'll give it a try. I'll report back here what I find.

Cheers,

Josh

P.S.: This is just for kicks and I don't expect (or want) David to try and troubleshoot it if it fails - he should be whipping his team to get us the next version of onenote ;)

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:46:00 GMT

Hey Josh,

Actually it should work fine on Win 7 RC 7100. That's what I'm running. In fact I developed this on Win 7 (earlier builds) which I've been running internally for 9 months or so now...

So Win7 should work fine. Let me know if you have issues. I have some other fixes queued up based on feedback.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

jstansfi — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:54:53 GMT

Interesting... It installed cleanly but didn't seem to detect when a file was printed to the directory - at least it didn't do anything that I could detect. I tried restarting several times and no dice. I'm going to try reinstalling it tomorrow, knowing that it was developed on win7 makes me think it might be my office 2007 setup - I only install onenote, word, powerpoint and excel, but not outlook, which I know onenote has multiple hooks into. Also SP2 required several attempts to install, suggesting there may be some other conflict that I haven't identified. Version is 12.0.6415.1000 SP2 MSO. If it is the lack of outlook, that will make an interesting dilemma for me whenever win 7 hits stores.

Cheers,

Josh

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:58:54 GMT

Hey Josh,

That is interesting. I highly doubt it has anything to do with Outlook so you shouldn't have to worry about that. Have you tried restarting the machine since you installed? Some people have found that for some reason or other they had to restart before it started working. If that doesn't work, I'd be interested in any other details. Did you do a clean Win7 7100 install or was it upgrade from beta?

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Solution for the Send to OneNote 2007 print driver on 64 bit Windows

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There has been a bunch of feedback and many comments regarding our lack of support for 64-bit Windows

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

ikes — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:31:04 GMT

I have downloaded your fix, but after the 2nd printing step, the dialog box, "print to onenote" does not pop up. Instead when i try to open the file there is a, "what should Foxfire do with this file?" dialog box pop up. What am I doing wrong. I also tried to restart the computer. Thanks for your help!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:18:23 GMT

ikes,

You shouldn't have to open the file at all. If you're printing the XPS file to the right location ( into the drop folder created on your desktop) then it should automatically pick it up.

The main thing to check is whether the app is running. And then confirm you're printing the file into the right location. Do you see the extra OneNote looking icon in your system notification tray? If you right click it it should say "Settings" and "Exit" (just to not confuse it with the somewhat similar OneNote side note icon in the system tray.)

Try again with a short document (say 1 page) and see if it works. If it doesn't I'm curious if you have any more details about your configuration. Thanks.

An aside on the FireFox issue that shouldn't matter:...The message you're seeing from firefox when you try to open the XPS file is that normally when you double click on an XPS file it opens in Internet Explorer (if that's your default browser) and IE has an add-in associated with it to render and view the XPS files. For some reason when FireFox is your default browser you get the error message you're seeing, because it tries to open it in the default browser and FireFox doesn't know what to do with an XPS file. HOWEVER, this should have no effect on the Print to OneNote solution here, because you should never have to open it, and the XPS2OneNote powertoy should be picking up the file automatically.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

ikes — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:51:49 GMT

Excellent! I tried a small one page document, then retried my class document and it worked! Very impressive fix, Thank you very much for your time!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

swinney — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:51:38 GMT

When I try to send to a password protected tab I get a .Net error. I can get around it by sending to the unfiled section but just wanted to share.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Gonzalopsz — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:11:05 GMT

I installed the software but no folder was created in my desktop. I manually created one with the same name, but its not working. Any help please???

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:54:44 GMT

Gonzalo,

You shouldn’t need to create your own folder. Can you confirm that the app is running in your system tray (the notification tray to the right of your windows task bar). You should have the regular OneNote icon there and then a slightly different OneNote icon for the XPS2OneNote printer. You can check it’s the right one by right clicking. It should only have two menu items “Settings" and ”Exit”.

If it’s not there try restarting your machine and see if it shows up. If it doesn’t then can you try installing it again? If that still doesn't work can you send me mail using the form on this blog with details of OS version, OneNote version and some more details of your steps.

Thanks.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

dinobud — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:35:58 GMT

I appreciate your work on this solution and don't expect any support. But I was wondering if there's an obvious fix for the error I'm getting. I am running Windows 7 RC x64 and get an unhandled exception error, "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I have reinstalled and rebooted and still get this error every time I save the XPS document and select the notebook section for insertion. I can post the specific exception text and loaded assemblies if you think it would be an easy fix.

Thanks!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Michael_O — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:48:31 GMT

I have made great use of this Craig! Thanks again for posting this. I've noticed I can no longer do screen snippets (Win+S) from the onenote helper app (normally in the tray).

I can live with this because I can still do screenshots using Onenote directly if I have the app open, but if this is a quick fix...?

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Sheepeeh — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:45:12 GMT

Hi there,

I was thrilllllled to see that this had been developed... but not so thrilled when I continued to get the

"had an error in file change handler... The type initializer for 'XPS2OneNote.OneNoteHelper' threw an exception."

Error even after reboot :(

I'm using Win7RC 6.1 Build 7100 64-bit, clean install on a newly formatted partition.

I'd love to be able to take advantage of all 4gb of my RAM, but OneNote is an absolute necessity for me. Any ideas?

Thanks!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

DavidRasmussen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:46 GMT

Just a quick update. I see a number of you are getting errors where the XPS2OneNote is getting an error (the exception in type initializer and the unable to get an instance of an object) when using this on the Win7 7100 RC build. I just wanted to let you knonw that I'm looking into this. For some people a restart has fixed this problem, but obviously not for others... I will update when I work out a solution to this issue.

Thanks,

David

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

wng_z3r0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:08:26 GMT

Is the source code going to be posted sometime soon?

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

rainbowgirl317 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:59:11 GMT

The first time I used it, my PDF file printed into the drop folder but the next menu asking where to put the page in onenote never came up. I restarted my computer and tried again, and now when I open my file (I use adobe reader 9.1.2) and try to print I get as far as naming the file to go into the drop file, but when I hit 'save' my adobe reader becomes non responsive and I have to cancel. Can you advise?

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Gonzalopsz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:47:48 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your comment but no luck :

The XPS print to OneNote is showing in my task bar, but is not creating a drop folder. Even if I create it manually, it does not identify when an xps file is in it and it does not send it to OneNote. I have installed it and restarted my tablet several times, but it does not work.

I have windows vista ultimate 64. With Office 2007 (SP2).

any ideas? Thank you!

Gonzalo

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

sidersdd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:28:42 GMT

Any progress on getting this to work with Win7 7100 RC build? I'm getting the exceptions that others are reporting. Reboots not helping. Thanks.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

cef1000 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:04:23 GMT

Thank you very much for trying to resolve this.

The time saved for End Users is enormous and we desperatly need this functionality. While your working on the next gen of OneNote and Office, please make certain that 64 Bit is considered as well as the 32 bit deployments - I believe we have reached a tipping point and 64 bit is eminantly coming of age.

I am experiencing the same exception using Win 7 RC1 64 Bit and Office 2007 with all critical updates and patches applied.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

NeuroJoe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:58:07 GMT

Thanks much for the stopgap solution, David. One thing I've noticed with this workaround: the resolution of the .pdfs I'm inserting into ON2007 seems to be quite low. When I compare them side by side to the same file open in Acrobat there's a noticeable difference in clarity. When printing from a ON2007 inserted file there is also a noticeable blurriness to the printout. I've also tried to print the file as a 600 dpi image but the printout quality is still low. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

drayel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:02:51 GMT

Is there a way to have the print outs go to just one page in OneNote?

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

AnthonyK — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:51:29 GMT

I have the same question as drayel. I use pdfs that are typically 30 pages in length, and they show up in OneNote as 30 separate tabs.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

turnerh1124 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:49:15 GMT

Try this solution. It prints everything to the same page/tab. It basically works just like you'd expect it to.

http://onenoteprintdriver.blogspot.com/

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Dabhar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:13:45 GMT

Hello David,

I see that this posting has not been updated since August...I'm hoping that means there is a solution somewhere else? I've been trying to apply the fix described here but when I get to the screen where it asks me to save to a location in OneNote I choose a file and then the following box pops up : "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue....Object reference not set to an instance of an object". When I click continue, I get the same error message.

I'm running Win 7 64-bit using OneNote 2007 SP2

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Dab

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

Dabhar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:16:35 GMT

Sorry forgot to mention.....its Win 7 Pro, latest Retail version

Thanks.

Dab

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

swinney — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:36:02 GMT

I am also running Windows 7 64-bit Pro now and am also unable to use the program now. When I try to use it I am seeing what everyone else is seeing.

"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application"

Do you think you would have time to look at this?

Thanks

Happy Turkey Day!

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

coolbeans — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:53:27 GMT

It works great! I was very lucky to have found your blog postings as I was searching for a way to fix the "Print to OneNote" problem with my Windows 7 OS. Although there are definitely more steps to inserting a file as a printout now than before when I had Windows XP, I am completely grateful for this option. I just installed it today and all seems well. Thanks for working to find a solution to this problem, David. It makes me feel much better about being an MS user.

re: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution

coolbeans — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:05:10 GMT

I've noticed that since installing the XPS2 now my "Publish as PDF or XPF" under the File menu in Word and OneNote is gone as well as on Internet Explorer 8. Is there a way to fix this?