Re: No PDF Port created for Distiller bundled with Frame 6?

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Herv,

The FrameMaker 6-bundled version of Acrobat Distiller 4.05 does NOT
come with the "plumbing" that installs the "PDF Port" that allows
printing to the "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance AND automatic
distillation. This omission has been corrected with FrameMaker 7.
The Distiller 5.0.5 installation of FrameMaker 7 does provide all
the plumbing including the PDF port capability and automatic
creation of the Acrobat Distiller printer instance.

The alternative for you is to create your own "Acrobat Distiller"
printer instance based on the Acrobat Distiller PPD, print to "FILE:"
to a location that is a "watched folder" of Distiller. Keep the Distiller
running and looking for new files in those folders.

        - Dov


At 6/7/2002 07:35 AM, Herv Peairs wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This rather lengthy message is about printing from Frame (Windows 2000) to
>the Acrobat Distiller printer driver, and how it doesn't seem to work as
>well with the Distiller installed from the Frame 6 CD as it does using the
>Distiller installed from the Acrobat 4.0 CD.  I am hoping someone can
>offer a workaround for users who wish to install using the Frame 6 CD.
>
>I have two versions of the Acrobat 4 Distiller installer.  One is on the
>Adobe Acrobat 4.0 CD, and one is on the Frame 6 CD.  Both install
>Distiller version 4.05.1026.  However, the Acrobat CD version creates a
>PDF Port that points to the location of a PDF Output directory.  Distiller
>is automatically configured to use this port.  The installer on the Frame
>6 CD does not create a PDF Port.  In this case, the installation seems to
>require that the distiller printer driver use the system FILE: port.
>
>Here's why this matters.  I've just joined a writing group that uses the
>Distiller bundled with Frame 6.  The procedure they use to create PDFs is
>to print to the distiller printer driver, which is associated with the
>FILE: port.  Print to file must be selected.  This creates a .ps file that
>must then be manually fed to the distiller.  Furthermore, even though
>distiller is configured to automatically open newly distilled PDFs in the
>reader, it does not do so.
>
>Well, all that seems like a step backward from how things work with the
>PDF Port.  With the driver set to use the PDF Port, I print to the
>distiller printer driver without Print to File selected.  The PDF is
>automatically created and automatically opens in the Acrobat Reader.  In
>case you are wondering, I am not using a watched directory.
>
>I tried creating the PDF Port manually but the system will not let me do
>that.
>
>Without using the Acrobat 4.0 CD, and without upgrading everyone to Frame
>7 and Acrobat 5, is there a way around this problem?  Incidentally, it's
>important to our writers that the newly distilled PDFs automatically open
>in the reader.
>
>Thanks, Herv


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