Re: Baffled by Frame + Acrobat 4.0.5

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Baffled,

The AdobePS 5.1.2 driver is what you need to fix the problem.
The existing driver instance for "Distiller Printer" does in fact use
the correct PPD already. A copy of that PPD file should have been
installed in the \DISTILLR\XTRAS subdirectory of your Acrobat installation.
For heaven's sake, dump that Acrobat 3 PPD. It will ruin your work and 
your day. And don't use PostScript generated for an HP printer or using
a PPD other than the Distiller 4 PPD for generation of PDF.

        

- Dov


At 4/25/00 09:13 AM, Ed Treijs wrote:
> Hi; 
>
> I recently installed Acrobat 4.0.5 on my NT system.  We are using Frame 5.5.6, and were hoping to overcome some font embedding mysteries when using Distiller 3.02. 
>
> I never had a "Distiller" printer before (nor any clue how to install), but one appeared during my upgrade. 
>
> Unfortunately, when printing to Distiller, I can't generate Acrobat data (bookmarks, etc).  Distiller says: 
>
> Start Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 11:30 AM 
> Destination: H:\course\mapping2.distiller.pdf 
> Source: mapping2.distiller.ps 
> %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% 
> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: FmPD2 ]%% 
>
> Stack: 
> /DOCINFO 
> (FrameMaker 5.5.6p145) 
> /Creator 
> -mark- 
>
>
> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% 
> %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% 
> Distill Time: 2 seconds (00:00:02) 
> **** End of Job **** 
>
> If I turn off "Generate Acrobat Data" in the Frame Print dialog, the PDF generates. 
>
> If I use the HP printer, then I can generate PDF just fine with or without Acrobat data. 
>
> I have downloaded the AdobePS 5.1.2 driver, but the only PPD file I have to install it with is a Distiller 3.0 PPD I also downloaded.  I don't see any other suitable PPD drivers on the Adobe Web site.  I can't find any reasonable-looking files on
> my hard drives.  And there's no %$#@! documentation that I can find to detail any of this. 
>
> The lack of information from Adobe is really frustrating.  The "Acrobat PDF Bible", which we purchased, doesn't go into the setup details either. Right now, I feel like explicitly embedding every dag-nabbit font, saving as PDF while using
> the HP driver, and live with the results. 
>
> Also, the font selection is different between the Distiller printer and the HP.  This impacts our template design, if we have to change every instance of Helvetica to Arial. 
>
> Any suggestions?  Anything I'm overlooking? 
>
> Ed (stuck in NT/TrueType/PostScript/drivers/hardware hell) Treijs 
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