🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello Thomas,
Thanks for your contribution. The details you proposed on PPDs did not work out. Neither on NT4 or Win2000 could I found printer properties that provided version information or PPD guidance. Some other printer drivers I have (HP DeskJet, Apple Laserwriter) do have "about" tabs which provide version information, but no about tab for Distiller Printer. However, the test page provides all the information I needed.

With this information I started looking at the properties of the Adist4 and Adist5 files. The extra ones with cs, ct, j, or k between the number and the file extension. On both Win2000 and NT4, these extra files have the same modified date and time, but instead of around 10k size they're each around 50k. Their creation date also coincides with the period when I was doing substantial upgrades, disk, memory, OS, network for my three (plus portable) PCs. So it appears that all my reinstalltion work has somehow generated these extra files.

This is rather strange for the NT4 machine because I have not yet installed Frame on it - just Acrobat 5, (but not yet the 505 patch).

The point you make about installing the Distiller printer instance "correctly" was a bit puzzling. I installed the Distiller printer instances directly from the original Adobe CDs (for FM or Acrobat). This seems to have created Distiller printer instances that work on all my test files without any problem. In what situations would anyone need "the AdobePS driver installer/setup utility, called Universal Driver Installer 1.0.6 in its latest incarnation" if they have all the original Adobe FM and Acrobat CDs?
Cheers
Ian