Since recently I am not able to print anything with pdfcreator 0.9.8 from certain applications. The test page always works.

- The followin applications work

• Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Adobe Acrobat 9.1
• OpenOffice 3.1.0
• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Freemind 0.8.1 (java)
• Maple 10 classic interface

- The following applications crash sometimes

• Microsoft Word 2003

- The following applications crash

• Notepad++
• Xnview
• Gimp 2.6.7 (GTK-Program)
• Dia 0.9.6 (GTK-program)
• MyAlbum

- The save dialog comes up. The buttons e-mail and save do not work (except if the dialog was initiated by "print test page"

- pdfcreator consumes 100% of cpu-time on one single core.

- Using process explorer I realized that the number of assigned handles increases linearly with time, busting the program when it reaches 2M handles (for pdfcreator alone). Pdfcreator in the working mode uses about 300 handles.

Is there a way to make the program work again with gimp and the likes?

Or is it a windows xp ressource which does not work anymore?

Thanks

Othmar Marti