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Janine,
Quite frankly, I really don't understand why you don't simply print
to the "Adobe PDF" PostScript driver instance and let the system do
the appropriate shuffling of PostScript in and PDF out of the Distiller.
I routinely produce PDF files hundreds of pages long from complex
content in any number of applications and with the exception of
FrameMaker 6 "book" PDF creation, I know of no good reason to manually
create PostScript and then manually feed it to the Distiller.
Having said that and reading your post, I wonder how you have a
printer labelled "Adobe Distiller." No version of Adobe Acrobat ever
created a PostScript printer driver instance (or any other driver
instance) by that name. Do you mean "Acrobat Distiller" as the name?
If so, that would imply that you didn't uninstall Acrobat 5.0.x prior
to installing Acrobat 6. That's a big "no no!" If that is indeed the
case, now you would need to fully uninstall both versions of Acrobat,
make sure to reboot, and then reinstall Acrobat 6. I would also
recommend downloading and installing the Acrobat 6.0.1 update.
Then, if you really think that you need to manually create PostScript
and then manually invoke distillation of same, the procedure would be
to print to the "Adobe PDF" PostScript printer driver instance and in
the print dialogue, check the "print to file" option (most applications,
including those in Microsoft Office have such an option). You are then
prompted for the filename and the "correct" PostScript is created
per your filename specification.
- Dov
At 11/24/2003 11:16 AM, Janine Hannel wrote:
>Color is getting lost in some PDF files but not in others. I recently upgraded to
>Acrobat 6.0. I deal with complex files so I always print to file and then distill.
>When converting a Word file to a PDF to send to our printers, the color in the
>original document was lost. I did this by printing to file and selecting Adobe
>Distiller, as I had always done with Acrobat 5.X with no trouble. When printing to
>file, my printer choices are Adobe Distiller, HP LaserJet postscript, and Adobe PDF.
> When checking the properties of these 3 printers in my Printers settings,
> only Adobe PDF shows as having color.
>In the printer dialog box, the Type listing for Adobe PDF is �PDF converter,� for
>Distiller it�s �AdobePSGenericPostscriptPrinter,� and for the HP ps Laserjet, the HP
>name.
> Which should I use for complex documents when printing to file? What�s the
> difference between the Adobe PDF printer and Distiller printers? If Distiller is
> still the printer I should use, do I perhaps just need to get a new printer driver
> for the Distiller printer to keep color?
> Also baffling is when I print to file in Framemaker 6.0 and select Distiller
> as my printer, the color is not lost!
>
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