RE: Why doesn't Acrobat Assistant run under Windows 2000? [SOLVED]

[hedley_finger@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Framesters:

I recently asked why AcroTray.exe was not running on Windows 2000.  In
fact, it was.  A number of people reminded me to use Task Manager to check
what processes were running on my machine and, sure enough, there the
little fella was.

The reason I was not getting the expected behaviour is that I had installed
a number of customised Acrobat Distiller "printers" using the new universal
AdobePS installer.  When the installer wizard asked, I specified a local
printer on LPT1: -- instead of the PDF Out "port".

Re-assigning the port to PDF Out and a suitable folder caused the expected
behaviour.

However, it appears that Acrobat Assistant/Distiller Assistant/AcroTray.exe
no longer watches the (un)watched folders to launch Distiller whenever a
PostScript file appears.  Pity.  In our workflow I have set up a number of
watched folders for press or online output, with different options for page
size, etc. so that the resultant PDF is already residing in the local
filesystem ready to be checked into the version management database.
(Distiller will process a PS file in a watched folder but I don't want to
have it start up automatically every day on the off-chance.  That is what
AcroTray.exe is for -- small footprint.)

The alternative to these watched folders is

@    to create about twelve Acrobat Distiller "printers" to cover the
various permutations,
@    to teach the writers when it appropriate to use them, and
@    to make sure the writers save the resultant PDFs to the appropriate
folder to go into the version database.

So, Adobe, will you restore the folder-watching functionality of the
Assistant in Acrobat 5.1?

[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31r25, IXgen 5.5.h]

Regards,
Hedley

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Hedley Finger
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MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au/>
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