RE: Everything I always wanted to know about AdobePS and PPD files but was afraid to ask

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian,

The advise to create a "dummy" PostScript driver instance was predicated
on problems between Acrobat 4.05 and Windows IF NO POSTSCRIPT DRIVER INSTANCE
was yet installed. In other words, you needed the dummy if you didn't already
have a driver instance for a real device. If you had a PostScript driver
instance already installed for a real device, no need to create that dummy
with the "generic" PostScript printer PPD.

The problem was fixed with Acrobat 5. 

        - Dov


At 7/30/2002 01:12 AM, Adrian Morse wrote:
>Thanks Dov. There's just one point I'm still not clear on...
>
>Q3. If you just want to install Adobe PS for the purpose of creating
>postscript files for conversion to PDFs does it make any difference if
>you choose to associate the Adobe PS driver with a real printer rather
>than the installing the generic postscript driver (and then installing
>the Distiller driver)?
>
>This question was based on the following information that you gave on
>Feb 09, 2001:
>"If you don't have any "real" Postscript printers attached to your
>system, create a "dummy" printer drive instance using the Generic
>PostScript PPD...This is necessary to get the Acrobat 4.05 installer to
>properly generate the Acrobat Distiller printer instance."
>
>I understood this to mean that to generate the Acrobat Distiller printer
>instance you must EITHER first create a dummy printer driver OR first
>add a driver for a real printer. I really wanted to know if there was
>any difference in doing it one way or the other. 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adrian


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