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I think if you have both Distiller and Adobe PDF in your printer dialog, you may have both Distiller 5 and 6 installed on top of each other. It is my understanding that this has been specifically labelled as incompatible by Adobe. They probably will never work correctly (consistently) as long as both are installed. Everything I have read says you must uninstall 4 or 5 before installing 6 just to make sure they don't interfere with each other. Not sure, but might be a lead to investigate... -----Original Message----- From: Janine Hannel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF] color lost 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! Sr. Publications Coordinator 1301 South 46th Street, RFS, Bldg. 451 Richmond, CA 94804 Tel: 510-231-9451 Fax: 510-231-9461 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
