RE: XP and PS Driver

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Avoiding the question of WHY you would want to upgrade to Windows XP
from Windows 2000 (in some ways, it can be a downgrade -- Windows XP
Pro is essentially Windows 2000 with an attitude and tollbooth), the
Adobe applications, printer drivers, and the font rendering subsystem
SHOULD come through such an upgrade OK. We have not heard of problems
with such "upgrades" but we know of very, very few in reality!

        - Dov


At 9/8/2003 02:18 PM, Steve Schwedland wrote:
>Dov,
>
>How about when moving from Win2K to WinXP.  I have a laptop that doesn't
>have a CD drive and the upgrade was the only way I could do it.  Is that
>going to be a problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com] On Behalf
>Of Dov Isaacs
>Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:59 PM
>To: Green, Colin
>Cc: framers@frameusers.com; framers@omsys.com
>Subject: Re: XP and PS Driver
>Importance: High
>
>
>I will repeat the warnings that we have been giving ever
>since Windows 2000 came out. You CANNOT, repeat CANNOT
>safely "upgrade" Windows'95/'98/Me/NT 4 to Windows 2000 or
>XP. Microsoft's advice notwithstanding, you MUST do a clean 
>install to a newly formatted disk partition or risk havoc 
>with drivers, fonts, and Acrobat. After the "clean install"
>you must install all drivers, fonts, and applications.
>
>No, the OLD AdobePS 4.x drivers do not work at all under Windows
>2000/XP. Nor will an Acrobat installation fully and properly survive an
>"upgrade" to Windows 2000/XP.
>
>There is no "Adobe PostScript driver" for Windows 2000/XP, but rather an
>Adobe-Microsoft driver that actually ships with these versions of
>Windows (PSCRIPT5.DLL). Adobe does provide an installer to associate PPD
>files with the system PostScript driver.
>
>        - Dov

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>At 9/8/2003 10:30 AM, Green, Colin wrote:
>>Framers,
>>
>>I am running Frame 6 (6.0p 357) on Windows XP. Can I use the Adobe 
>>postscript driver, version 5.2 (31), with the version ADIST5 ppd, 
>>without problems creating Acrobat Files, with this version of Frame? Or
>
>>should I continue to use the version 4 driver with the version 4 ppd to
>
>>configure the driver? The reason I ask is that we were upgraded from 
>>Win2K to XP. The XP upgrade came with an Adobe postscript driver 
>>version 5.2 (31) with the ADIST5.PPD. The version 4 driver was 
>>eliminated.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Colin


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