PDF Writer printer driver: opens doc after printing

Arthur_M...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 15, 2004, 11:34:45 PM3/15/04

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I'm running Win2k pro and Acrobat PDF Writer printer driver v4.05. Lately when I send a doc to print to this it also opens up in Acrobat. Never happened before.

Any thoughts???

Aandi_...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 16, 2004, 7:19:54 AM3/16/04

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It's an option on the prompt window.

Aandi Inston

Arthur_M...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 16, 2004, 9:09:13 AM3/16/04

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Uh...where exactly?

I see no such setting in the driver's property pages.

Aandi_...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 16, 2004, 5:04:07 PM3/16/04

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It's not in the property pages. It's in the dialog that appears to
prompt you for the PDF file name.

Aandi Inston

Arthur_M...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 16, 2004, 5:11:49 PM3/16/04

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Got it, thanks! I must be blind!

Aandi_...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 17, 2004, 3:14:54 AM3/17/04

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You're not the only one, if it helps... In the days before PDFWriter
was discontinued, this was quite a common question....

Aandi Inston

Arthur_M...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 17, 2004, 9:56:46 AM3/17/04

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Discontinued? What is the current alternative? I use it all the time and can't imagine doing without it.

Dov Isaacs

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Mar 17, 2004, 11:50:36 AM3/17/04

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In Acrobat 4 or 5, you print to the "Acrobat Distiller" PostScript printer driver instance. In Acrobat 6, you print to the "Adobe PDF" PostScript printer driver instance. Under the covers, so to speak, PostScript is generated and then automatically distilled into PDF. The results are generally much more reliable than anything you were able to get out of PDFWriter.

- Dov

Arthur_M...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 17, 2004, 12:42:03 PM3/17/04

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To be clear, i don't open Acrobat when I print - instead of saving many different format files I save them in PDF, writing to the driver.

Are you saying that by installing Acrobat 4, 5 or 6 such a driver is installed? I have 4 and 5 installed and didn't notice this in the installation.

Again, my goal is to print directly to a PDF printer.

Dov Isaacs

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Mar 17, 2004, 2:00:47 PM3/17/04

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The only way you could have gotten PDFWriter installed was if you installed the full Acrobat package. PDFWriter was not sold as an independent product. It was a standard component of Acrobat versions up through 4, an optionally-installed (although highly discouraged) component of Acrobat 5, and totally absent (thank goodness) in Acrobat 6.

You don't need to run Acrobat in order to use the "Acrobat Distiller" or "Adobe PDF" printer driver instances, but Acrobat must have been installed on your system.

- Dov

Aandi_...@adobeforums.com

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Mar 17, 2004, 4:20:57 PM3/17/04

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>To be clear, i don't open Acrobat when I print - instead of saving many different format files I save them in PDF, writing to the driver.

Ever since Acrobat 3, there has been a Distiller driver (by one of
several names). There was a PDFWriter printer in the past.

You don't need to change the essence of how you work, just move to a
new driver if you upgrade.

Aandi Inston