Can FM 5.5.6 run on Win2000? Print driver problems.

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From: Arnis Gubins
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:19

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Ian,

The AdobePS setup/installation utility uses a PPD file to create
what's called a printer "instance". 

To add a new printer you have to run the installer (again) and select
the required PPD file during the process (it always shows the "Generic
postscript printer" for some arcane reason, you have to click the
Browse button and navigate to where your specific PPD is located).

If you modify a PPD for an existing printer instance, e.g. editing the
Distiller PPD file to make the corrections for the Zapf Dingbats
problem under 2000/XP, then you have to delete the existing printer
instance and then rerun the installer to create a new instance using
the modified PPD file. Simply editing the PPD file does nothing to an
existing printer instance that was created with that PPD file (seems
to be a common pitfall for the Dingbats bug).

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