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Re: Face should/could be red (Was: color is grey in pdf)



Gary,

If you properly installed Acrobat 5, there should already be a "printer"
labelled "Acrobat Distiller". If not, your installation of Acrobat 5 is
incomplete. Fully uninstall Acrobat 5 and REBOOT your system. With the 
Adobe Universal PostScript Driver Installer 1.0.6 (posted yesterday on 
Adobe.com), create a dummy "to FILE: port" PostScript driver instance with
the generic PPD. Then fully reinstall Acrobat 5 followed by the 5.0.5 
upgrade. You should then see a "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance.
Finally, delete that generic PostScript printer instance, poor a tall,
stiff drink, and enjoy the weekend (but don't drive after that drink).

        - Dov


At 5/24/2002 02:37 PM, Gary Zimmerman wrote:

>Dov, thanks for the response!
>
>>What "printer" are you "printing" to for creation of a PostScript
>>file for distillation? If it is a "generic" PostScript printer driver
>>instance,
>
>It sure is!
>
>>you are getting exactly what you asked for, a monochrome
>>PostScript file.
>
>oh.  I hate it when computers take me literally.
> :-)
>
>>Creating PDF should ALWAYS be done via the Acrobat
>>Distiller printer instance (eliminates the need to manually distill
>>PostScript) or in the case of FrameMaker 6 (and earlier) book printing,
>>via a PostScript printer driver instance based upon the Acrobat
>>Distiller PPD.
>
>Sean told me the same thing, but I'm not sure how to install or use the Distiller printer instance.  I have FM+SGML and Acrobat 5 and, apparently, Distiller installed on the XP machine.  In my FM directory, under the ppds subdirectory, there are a number of adist4*.ppd files:
>
> adist4.ppd
> adist4cs.ppd
> adist4ct.ppd
> adist4j.ppd
> adist4k.ppd
>
>I'm not sure what the differences are.
>
>I'm also not sure how to install them as recognized printers.  But when I try to use the Add Print wizard to add another printer, Adobe, Distiller, nor FrameMaker appears in the list of available printer manufacturers.
>When I tried to manually install the new printer, the wizard insists I find it an .inf file, not a ppd file.
>
>How do I use the right ppd and get it installed properly as a printer driver?  Do I need to use the FM installation CD?
>
>-- garyZ



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