🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,
I think I have now got to the bottom of this confusing scenario. I think it is confusing because the information needed to decide what to do (if anything) is widely distributed in this Frame Users Forum and the Adobe download pages. Here's what I finally did:

1. Decided to upgrade my distiller printer driver for the following reasons:

A. I read Dov Isaac's posting "FAQ: Creating PDFs from FrameMaker Documents...." at <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b312> this is near the top of the FrameMaker User Forum currently the 10th topic in the list.
B. I checked on my current versions of my PPD files on Win2000Pro (Printer properties>Device Settings>right click on the top line>About... This gives the information adist5.ppd - Version 1.0) and on NT4 (Printer properties>Device Settings>left click on top line>Big button at the bottom About.. - this provided the information adist5.ppd version 1.0). This is apparently acceptable.
C. I checked the time and date signatures of my adist5.ppd files (yes, I had several due to installing Acrobat and FM7 several times in different locations) and found that the one that was most likely to be in use was dated April 2002 and to be found in WINNT\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
D. I checked the Adobe support page for dowloads for printer drivers for Windows. Scroll way down to the bottom to find a list of PPDs for various printer manufacturers. I chose the adobe.zip file that has a date on this page shown as 2nd April 2002. Just to check I downloaded it anyway.
E. The adobe.zip file contains adist5.ppd (as well as versions for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) but the date of the adist5.ppd is 5th June 2002 - a bit of a contradiction when the download page shows a date of April 2002 for the adobe.zip container. Also potentially misleading is the About.. information from the Distiller Printer properties which gives adist5.ppd and version 1.0 but no path name and no date - so if you have several adist5.ppd files on your system, you still are not sure which one is being used.
F. To cut the confusion I decided to install a new Distiller printer with the latest files.

2. First IMPORTANT step - read the readMe file that comes in the adobe.zip package.

3. Copy the adist5.ppd file to the WINNT\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3 directory overwriting the old file.

3. Download the Universal Postscript installer from the Adobe Support Printer driver page, making sure I had version for the language of the OS I was using (French and English). Current version of the Universal Postscript Installer is 1.0.6.

4. Run the Universal Postscript installer. AVOID the temptation to go ahead with the suggested Generic Postscript printer. Instead Browse to the directory to which I loaded the adis5.ppd. The installer provided a list of PS printers that is actually derived from all the ppd files in this directory. Select the Adobe Distiller option. I confirmed I had the right file using the status line that shows the file name and date adist5.ppd 05/06/2002 (note there was no version number).

5. The rest of the installation is just standard printer installation stuff.

6. Deleted my old Distiller printer and renamed the new one.

7. Made sure my copy of Acrobat was updated to 5.0.5.

So, John, if you're still in touch with this thread that's how to get your version of Distiller Printer installed for Win2000, alongside a simple installation of your HP Laserjet5si MopierPS driver. You might consider using an AdobePS driver for your HP printer (there's a file called HPLJ5SIM.PPD dated 22nd June 1998 in hp.exe file you can dowload from the adobe support page for printer drivers), but I would be inclined to go with a Distiller Printer and a separate simple HP installation.

Thanks to Arnis, Sean, and Thomas for various bits of advice that, taken together with a bit of research, seems to have solved this issue for me, as well as eradicate a lot of old but misleading misconceptions I had.
Cheers
Ian