Publisher and Acrobat 6.0

[Petra]

I just upgraded from Publisher 2000 to 2003 and now my
option to print to Acrobat is not there anymore. I
loaded Acrobat again after not having this option, but it
didn't help. Any suggestions?
petra

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

You print to Adobe Distiller to create the PDF

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[petra]

It does not give me the option to print to Adobe
Distiller, since I downloaded the 2003.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Install the Adobe Generic Postscript driver you can download from the Adobe
website.

Then print to the Adobe Postscript driver, then use Adobe Distiller to make
the PDF file.

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[Dave Parker]

If you have Adobe Acrobat 6 installed, it should have
installed the Acrobat Distiller. It will show up as
another printer in your printer directory. Select
File/Print, then select Acrobat Distiller from the pull-
down printer menu.

 

[Myrna Larson]

FWIW, the printer that Acrobat 6.0 Standard installed for me is named Adobe
PDF, not Adobe Distiller.

The only place I find mention of Distiller is on the Start Menu, in the
Adobe group: there I find Distiller 6.0. It doesn't behave like a printer
driver. When I run it, I am expected to open a Post-Script file which
Distiller converts to an Acrobat file. I had to install a dummy Post Script
printer to create the ps file in the first place.

All of the above is different from Acrobat 5.0.

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

The only place I find mention of Distiller is on the Start Menu, in
the Adobe group: there I find Distiller 6.0. It doesn't behave like a
printer driver. When I run it, I am expected to open a Post-Script
file which Distiller converts to an Acrobat file. I had to install a
dummy Post Script printer to create the ps file in the first place.

If you print to the Adobe PDF driver, it does exactly the same as printing a
PS file and calling the distiller - except that it is done integratedly and
the distiller runs in the background.

 

[Myrna Larson]

Yes, I know that. I have no problems using Acrobat by printing to the Adobe
PDF printer.

My point was that the instructions to "print to the Acrobat (6) Distiller
printer" are not correct. There is no such printer. If you want to use
Distiller directly, you have to create a PS file first, using some other
printer driver.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Myrna,

Methinks you have installed something the wrong way. Installing the full
version of Acrobat adds a printer to your system, albeit one that prints
to the HD and not to a printer port.

Mike

 

[Myrna Larson]

Yes, it installs a printer, but it's named "Adobe PDF", not "Acrobat
Distiller".

I don't have any problems creating a PDF with Acrobat 6. I was just
commenting on some potentially confusing info in another reply. If you tried
to follow those instructions, you'd be looking for a printer named
Distiller. That isn't the name that is used.

As far as installing something "the wrong way", I used the default
settings -- no customization.