RE: Adobe PDF Settings tab

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

The settings for Distiller job options set in the driver via the 
"Adobe PDF Settings" tab in printer properties ONLY APPLY if and only
if you don't divert the PostScript stream to a file. Thus, if you are
checking the "file" option, it won't use those options. Similarly,
FrameMaker's "save as PDF" option if it uses the Acrobat Distiller
printer instance or even PageMaker's similar hackery will likewise
bypass this specification since these "features" call the Distiller
themselves without using the "acrotray.exe" service.

If you are seeing something to the contrary, we would like to know.
I cannot cause a failure with Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 2000
Server; it works fine here and for all other instances we know of.
What flavour of Windows are you using? Also, you wouldn't happen to
concurrently have Acrobat 4.05 installed, I hope?!? Concurrent use
of both versions or perhaps failure to uninstall one before loading
the other might cause some weird hybrid behaviour?!? Please advise.

        - Dov



At 6/11/2001 12:30 PM, Swallow, William wrote:
>::  When you use the Acrobat Distiller printer instance, the setting for
>::  the Distiller job options is indeed the choice of job option file to
>::  be used for the job at hand. This overrides whatever is set as the
>::  Distiller's own settings, so you had better NOT ignore it!! Whatever
>::  options are chosen in Adobe PDF settings tab are what is 
>::  used for the distillation!!!
>
>I hate to say this Dov, but it don' be doin' dat for me. I can set my job
>options in the printer setup all I want, and Distiller will still use the
>last job option I chose *in Distiller*. The Adobe PDF Settings tab doesn't
>seem to pass the info to Distiller. :-/
>
>***************** 
>BILL SWALLOW 


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