Which PPD for Acrobat Distiller?

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2 total messages Started by Terje Lovoy Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:57

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Author: Terje Lovoy
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:57

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I am using acrobat 4 & 5 on for various tasks. Can and should I use adist5.ppd for both Acrobat 4 & 5 or are there any reasons why I should use adist4.pdd when using Acrobat 4. 

Second question adist*.ppd is also found in program file folders for PageMaker and FrameMaker should I replace these with the latest adist*.ppd (I use these programs to create pdf). 

Thanks Terje

Re: Which PPD for Acrobat Distiller?

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Author: Tim Murray
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:09

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Do you mean you use different *Acrobat* programs or different *Distiller* programs, or both? 

Acrobat doesn't care about the PPD,and "strictly" speaking, neither does Distiller -- it's the actual printer driver that truly uses the PPD when the printer is created for the first time. But I emphasized the "strictly" because Distiller 5 prefers PostScript files produced with V5 ppd, and Distiller 4 prefers PostScript files created with V4 PPD. 

Further, if you have only one printer named Acrobat Distiller (and you didn't change a name of another one by hand) then you're using only one or the other PPD.

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