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Rosemary,

If you think that your printer drivers are quite old, then please
download the latest Adobe Universal PS printer driver from
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows

Prior to running the installer/setup program for this, check your
Acrobat \Distillr folder to see if there is a \Xtras folder that
contains PPD files. Depending upon your version of Acrobat, you will
either see Adist4.ppd or Adist5.ppd as one of those PPDS. These are
the postscript printer definition files that are used by the AdobePS
driver to create a "printer instance" (what you see in the Printers
Control panel as a "printer").

First step, check your printer control panel and remove any existing
Distiller printers.

Now start the AdobePS installation program (winsteng.exe). Follow the
instructions and when you get to the part that asks you to select the
printer to install (all you will see is the Generic Postscript Printer
listed), stop. Click on the Browse button and go to the folder that
has the Adist4.ppd (or Adist5.ppd) file that you found earlier and
select this one. Now continue with the installation and you should get
the proper "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance. When configuring this
printer, make sure that you set the port to FILE:, the output format
to Binary, Postscript Level 3, send TT fonts as Type42. (There are
more details in the FAQ section).

Whenever you want to create a PDF, you must print your FM file(s) to
the Distiller printer and then use the Distiller program to convert
the PS files to PDF.