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Hello Sean and Arnis,
First of all Sean, thanks for the reminders of what I used to have to do with Acrobat 3 and the files I downloaded from the Adobe Support area. Therein lies my recollection about checking which PPD a given printer instance is using. Note that I still do not know how to check which PPD file a given printer driver is using.

I have 20 different PPD files on my system. Some are duplicates, variously in Acrobat Xtras, FM6\ppds, and ...\spool\drivers\w32x86. There are 5 files; Adist5.ppd, adist5cs.ppd, adist5ct.ppd, adist5j.ppd, adist5k.ppd, which appear to be for Acrobat 5 and a similar set for Acrobat 4.

I seem to recall that several people have posted replies to printer/PDF issues that include phrases, like "make sure you're using the latest Adobe PPD file". I have gone through the FAQ, and the Forum contents and have been unable to find information about how to "make sure ...". I am sure it's there somewhere because I seem to recall Arnis's reply to this.

I do lots of FM installations but I don't recall ever being prompted for a PPD selection when installing the Distiller printer instance or any printer driver.

So that is why I got into this thread in the first place. John Stodola mentioned the "AdobePS HP Laserjet5si MopierPS driver". So to check out what difficulties he might be having I tried to do what he appears to be having difficulty with. Installing the HP Laserjet5si MopierPS driver clearly is not the issue, because that driver comes on the Win2000Pro CD. But how can he get the Adobe PS part of his problem sorted. It would seem he wants to change the HP PPD and use the Adobe PS PPD.

So if the following two ansers could be provided I think it would help a lot of people, especially if the FAQ/Search facility could be made to find these answers:
1. Where can the definition of he "latest" PPD file be found?
2. How can one select a particular PPD file to be associated with a particular driver instance?

And one last point for Sean, the reason I print to file (appart from my attempt at humour about the File port feeling lonely) is to avoid the automatic call to distiller (using the last set of Job Options in distiller) because I sometimes forget to change them before OK to the print request. I still can't get used to Print to PDF in FM7 having drilled myself and others not to do this for earlier versions of FM. I work with many versions of FM in two languages and find myself occasionally trying to do FM7 English things in FM5.5.6 French and many other combinations.
Cheers
Ian