Adobe PDF PPD MIA

Hi Guys,
I'm having an issue with 6 Macs since updating to Tiger where the Adobe PDF PPD that should be in the print dialogue PPD pull down in InDesign when selecting Postscript has dissapeared! Only the "Device Independent" option is available!!
The only solution mentioned on the Adobe forum is to Archive and Install on all the workstations!!!
Gratefull for any suggestions, solutions or workarounds for something that could resolve or shortcut the process as it could take quite some time to A & I on 6 workstations.
Regards,
BB

If only it was that simple.
The complete Acrobat professional package has already been reinstalled and the "Adobe PDF" PPD is in the PPD folder. I've also reset the printing queues and checked the printing system with Printer Setup Repair.
The problem is the"Adobe PDF" PPD is just not available (or anything else) in the PPD pull down menu in the print dialgoue box!
Gratefull for any other suggestions, solutions or workarounds that could resolve this issue or shortcut the process as it will take quite some time to A & I on 6 workstations.
Regards,
BB

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thanks
chris

In the past, I have always created a Postscript file from InDesign and then used Distiller to create a PDF file. This can still be done in Snow Leopard, but the steps are a little different. Go to the "Print" menu and select Adobe PDF 9.0 in the "Printer" window. Then click on the "Printer" window again, and this time select Postscript File. Now Postscript File appears in the "Printer" window, and Adobe PDF 9.0 appears in the "PPD" window. From there you apply all the necessary changes to Setup, Marks and Bleeds and so on.
I hope this helps.

New printer shows up as "Adobe PDF 8.0" in Print Utility. Why?

I already posted this info, but I'm hoping the new title will get other responses. I hooked up a Samsung CLP-300 to my Mac, installed the drivers, Went to Print Utility and selected "Add". The only thing in the list is "Adobe PDF 8.0". I tried selecting just for grins, but when I try to print to it nothing happens.
Note: I tried adding the printer before installing the drivers and it showed up as "Adobe PDF 8.0", but I was told I needed to install the drivers, but after doing so it still shows up as "Adobe PDF 8.0". Could it be that it is remembering that? I removed the printer but it keeps coming back as that name.
Thanks

Hmmm, At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware>USB, does it showup there?
More Info>Hardware>Printers, does it show up there, if so click on it & see if it has something similar to this...
HP LaserJet 1200:
Status: Idle
Print Server: Local
Driver Version: 10.4
Default: No
URI: usb://Hewlett-Packard/HP%20LaserJet%201200?serial=00XXXXXXXXXX
PPD: HP LaserJet 1200
PPD File Version: 4.3.5.153
PostScript Version: (2014.116) 0

Default output location for Adobe PDF 9.0 printer

Hi there,
Is there a way on Mac OS 10.6.4 with the Adobe PDF 9.0 virtual printer that I can set a default output location?
For example I want to use the print via AppleScript command, and all printed documents would be output to a folder on the desktop (or another location of my choosing)
I know CUPS-PDF does this, but the file size is huge in comparison to what Adobe PDF 9.0 does.
I've looked through the PPD but can't find anything. This can be done in windows by changing a registry key, but I can't find anything for the Mac OS
Thanks in advance and feel free to ask questions if I haven't been clear enough

If Cups PDF does indeed still work on X.6 the reason for the large size it that they use acrobat version 3 format.
each new version of Acrobat has improved file sizes and compression.
I would simply use cupspdf and open the items in question in Acrobat 9 version and use PDF Optimizer to save in Acrobat 9 format.

Adobe PDF Printer - Adobe Recommended?

I have a vague memory of reading on these forums that Adobe recommends using the Adobe PDF virtual print driver when generating PDFs from FrameMaker. If I remember correctly, using a physical print driver was not recommended. I've tried searching the forums, but the search functionality seems to be broken at the moment. Can anybody point me to somewhere where Adobe says to use the Adobe PDF Printer?

I've tried searching the forums, but the search functionality seems to be broken at the moment.
Use an external engine.
Search for "framemaker pdf printer driver"
Restrict search to site or domain: forums.adobe.com
Numerous result hits.
... using a physical print driver was not recommended.
The PostScript generated is limited by the constraints that the printer declares about itself via the PPD.
Historically, this might arise as: why did my color document PDF as B&W?
Ans: because you were printing to .ps via the HP LaserJet II PostScript driver.

Issues Installing Adobe Acrobat PPD

I am trying to add Acrobat 9 PPD to my Indesign Cs6 presets. When I try to follow the following steps I have the presets folder highlighted and when I try to add the folder it goes to another location in my applications. I tried to drag it into the folder and it goes into a sub folder. I feel stupid there has to be an easier way. I am on a MAC 10.7.5 - Thanks

I found this in the comments from two years ago to this article: InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard
Short description to the workaround Solutions
1) Usual workaround for printing with Distiller under SL and InDesign CS4:
Copy the PPD called “ADPDF9.PPD” (download-link here in this topic) to Library/Printers/PPDs /Contents/Resources/en.lproj
Works for CS4. Problem: Does NOT work for CS5.
2) Workaround for InDesign CS5:
- Go to Applications/Adobe Indesign CS5/Presets
- Create a folder called “PPDs” (attention: foldername is case-sensitive!)
- Copy the PPD called “ADPDF9.PPD” (download-link here in this topic) into this folder.
- PostScript Printer will be useable within InDesign CS5
Hope that helped and clears up all questions so far.
Cheers, hi2hello
My guess would be that the same procedure will work in CS6.

How to recreate the Create Adobe PDF printer queue (Mac)?

I have tried deleteing the files in /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins (nothing was there) and /Library/Printers/PPDs but when I go to repair the Acrobat install from the Help menu, I only get the option to recreate the Safari plug-in. There doesn't seem to be any option under Distiller. So how can I recreate that print queue, short of reinstalling from scratch?

That's one way. Another is to use the Save as Adobe PDF from the PDF box at the lower left of the Print window.

Creating PS file with Adobe PDF very slow

Hallo Framers,
I use FrameMaker 7.1 and Distiller 8.1.3 under Windows XP.
As recommended in many posts on this forum, I have set Adobe PDF as my default printer. I use the Print To File setting and process the resulting PS with Distiller. However it is S-L-O-W. Making the PS of a 1250-page document takes less than 2 minutes when I use the driver of my PS printer (Xerox WorkCentre 7132PS), and 48 minutes using the Adobe PDF driver. The PS and PDF files are about the same size (900MB PS, 14MB PDF) and the appearance and links seem to be good in both.
I know that Tagged PDF can be slow, but I have switched that off in Format > Document > PDF Setup > Tags. Are there any other settings where I can speed up the Adobe PDF?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe (thanks in advance)
--- Derek

Since my name has been used in vain here at least a few times ...
(1)     My presentation from 2002 is somewhat dated. Acrobat 5 is four releases back from Acrobat 9, the current release. Likewise, the current FrameMaker at that time was FrameMaker 7.0, also four releases back from the current FrameMaker 9 (I am counting 7.1 and 7.2 as releases). Some of the recommendations from that 2002 still make sense and apply, others don't.
(2)     For example, there is the issue of the spooling settings for the Advanced tab of the Adobe PDF PostScript Printer Driver Instance. Ideally, this should be set to Start printing after last page is spooled. But if you set that option for that particular printer instance under Windows Vista or Windows 7, you break Acrobat (it is a security “feature” added by Microsoft). Leave the setting at the default of Start printing immediately if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 (which of course implies that you must have Acrobat 8 or Acrobat 9).
(3)     The glacial speed issue is really associated with the fact that there are a number of “layers” of code interpreting each of the calls made by FrameMaker to Windows GDI to pass not only graphics to the driver to be converted to PDF, but many fragments of PostScript for purposes of providing support for reflow, structure, links, etc. If you turn off those features you really don't need for a particular publication, you will likely see significant performance improvements. Alternatively, something that essentially saves just to file without going through the driver plug-in directly feeding the Distiller may also cut the overhead.
(4)     There is no new printer driver dated from 2002 or otherwise on the Adobe website. I assume the reference is to the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 dating back to 5/23/2002. First thing to know about this “installer” is that it won't run properly and may crash on Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit systems and won't run at all on 64-bit Windows systems. It is a 16-bit installer application that was originally designed for Windows'95 and Windows'98. The second and most important thing to understand is that it doesn't install any new driver on any OS versions other than Windows'9X, Windows ME, and Windows NT 4.0. For Windows 2000 and XP, it uses the existing Windows PSCRIPT5 driver and associates that with a PPD file to create a PostScript printer driver instance. Again, it installs nothing new. What you can do with this is to create a new PostScript printer driver instance using the Distiller PPD and set it to print to FILE: using that to create PostScript from FrameMaker and then funnel either manually or via a “watched folder” to the Distiller for creation of PDF from the PostScript.
          - Dov

Adobe PDF PPD MIA

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