RE: Color and Frame/PDF

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 5/7/99 06:52 PM , Dan Emory wrote:
>At 05:15 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>>I will repeat once again for the home audience before ending
>>this week ...
>>
>>The only method of generating PDF from FrameMaker that is reliable
>>is via printing. No PDFWriter, No "Save as PDF"!!! Under Windows,
>>print to the printer / driver instance associated with the Distiller
>>Assistant (Acrobat 3)
>==================================================
>Why do you suggest Distiller Assistant as the preferred PPD for Acrobat 3? I
>always thought the Acrobat Distiller 3.x PPD worked better than Distiller
>Assistant, which many people (me included) remove because it's irritating,
>and they don't use watched folders. In fact, I seem to recall having a
>problem early on with producing PDF using Distiller Assistant, and Adobe
>Tech Support advised me to use Acrobat Distiller 3.x instead. That cleared
>up the problem.

Dan,

The Distiller Assistant of Acrobat 3.0x is not a driver and is not
a PPD. It is simply a conduit by which PostScript output by the driver
is force fed to Distiller 3.0x via what is effectively a "watched" disk
location (directory \DISTASST.PS on each mapped volume). With Acrobat 3.0x,
the AdobePS 4.2.4 (or greater) PostScript driver should be setup to use 
the Distiller 3 PPD and print to the \DISTASST.PS port (or x:\DISTASST.PS, 
where "x" is the letter of a mapped volume to which the user has write 
access and enough space for a PostScript file). For better or worse, the
installer for Acrobat 3.0x never got that quite right. You need to do this
manually. But once it is setup correctly with the right driver 
(not PSCRIPT.DRV), the correct PPD, and the correct port, it works like a
charm. Sorry if Adobe Tech Support didn't quite understand either the 
problem you described to them and/or the full correct solution.

Acrobat 4's solution is quite a bit cleaner and is properly installed
by the Acrobat 4 setup program, totally replacing the Distiller Assistant.

	- Dov

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