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What you describe is normal.

The PDF settings tab does not come because you choose the ADIST5.PPD
file.  It comes because Acrobat (but not Distiller Server) installs
special programs and extensions to the driver.  You cannot make use of
these with Distiller Server.

Aandi Inston

Do you mean that the "Adobe PDF Settings" tab DOES appear?  That is
surprising, but I must have missed something.  Or else this machine
ONCE had Acrobat installed on it, and is not a typical client.

Clearly, "Edit conversion settings" cannot work. This uses Distiller
to edit the settings, and you don't have it on the client.

Aandi Inston

Yes "Adode PDF Settings" appears but only with the PDF Sysmbol and ""Edit conversion settings" does not work O.K, but why do i get all this in english and not in german (client PC's)??? The Server is German and everything is in German but on my Clients this side with "Edit conversion settings" is in English any ideas!!?? (i have got very fussy users)

I am amazed that Adobe PDF Settings appears at all. This is a part of
Acrobat, not Distiller Server - or has Distiller Server changed and
now includes a printer driver?

Are these PCs on which Acrobat is, or used to be, installed?

Aandi Inston

There is no Acrobat installed on the Clients all i do is install the PS Printer Driver(from adobe) and then say NEtwork Printer choose the Printer that is shared on the Server (Distiller Printer) and then choose the adist5.ppd.

This might be related to the printer driver on the server. Even
so...did that come with Acrobat?

You should NOT expect to be able to use these settings on clients. The
best thing would probably be to figure out how to get rid of them.

Aandi Inston

There is no Acrobat installed on the Clients all i do is install the PS Printer Driver(from adobe) and then say NEtwork Printer choose the Printer that is shared on the Server (Distiller Printer) and then choose the adist5.ppd.

I mean, was Acrobat ever installed on the SERVER?  I think that may be
where these options are coming from, and hence not working right.

I asked whether Distiller Server now comes with a printer driver. Does
it? If not, how did you set up this driver?  Adobe don't make a
networkable driver for use with Distiller Server.

Aandi Inston

Back again!!! 
ON the cd from Distiller server there is the Adobe PS Driver. Now i'm installing the PS Printer Driver using the Adist5.ppd also on the Server and want to Share it, does that work???? OR can i install different PS Printers (with the Adist5.ppd) and then make a new  PDF Port for each printer  pointing at different Directory's????

> Now i'm installing the PS Printer Driver using the Adist5.ppd also on the Server and want to Share it, does that work?

Sharing a printer driver will work, but I suspect you want more than a
shared driver - you want a driver that somehow, when shared, will run
Distiller on the server to convert to PDF.  That won't happen.

> OR can i install different PS Printers (with the Adist5.ppd) and then make a new  PDF Port for each printer  pointing at different Directory's????

You should not be able to make PDF Ports. So far as I know, Distiller
Server does not install any function to make PDF ports. That is done
by Acrobat.


Aandi Inston

The funktion is there (Printer Server Details/Ports/New/PDF Port) and localy on the server where Distiller Server is installed it works, but as soon as i share this printer and a user connects and tries to print it doesn't (on the server is a box that say's "error writing to G:\pdf\*.pdf for file test: the syntax for the file name, directory or the volumename is wrong do you want to try again etc." there are to buttons with try again or stop.)any ideas???!!!

I think we are getting nowhere.  This is not expected to work; give up
with the driver.

Aandi Inston

O.K but thanks anyway!!!! :-)