Distiller printer

Using Acrobat 7 Standard with XP. When Acrobat installed, the distiller printer did not install. Can reinstallation fix?

Try the Acrobat -> Creating Editing & Exporting PDFs forum. Distiller Server is a special product for servers. Good luck!

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How do I add the Acrobat Distiller Printer to my list of printers.

I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0 full version. I would like to know how to convert MS Works files to PDF files.
I keep getting the following message when I try to open a file as a PDF file.
When I open the MIcrsoft Works program and try to print ot the Acrobat Distiller it's not listed as you can see in the image below.
How can I had the Acrobat Distiller to my list of printers.
Please email with an answer Thanks.
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Well those listed files you had were of no help. I did some more searching in an system I had and found the downloaded file Acro5.0.5.exe.
I searched for instances of the word Adobe and deleted them including folders. Also cleaned the registry as well then reinstalled the software from the afore mentioned file. Then re-registered the program. Now everthing is working fine, The Acrobat Distiller Printer is now shown in Printers and Faxes Control Panel.
I did some file conversions to PDF and the distiller is now listed as a printer source in the Print Menu of the file I am converting.
Thank for your help.

Adobe PDF Printer and Adobe Distiller Printer, from where to get these?

I installed Acrobat 7.0 Professional from the CS2 suite. During installation a message came up, "Warning 20225, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 set up was unable to create a new item: The Adobe PDF Printer Converter may be unavailable.
Get last Error: The specified module could not be found."
To convert WORD files to pdf I get "unable to find "Adobe PDF Printer or Acrobat Distiller" printer. I have run the installer in repair mode several times without success. Where from and how do I get the Adobe Printer and/od Distiller printer from. I have searched the Adobe web site with out success. Please help anyone who can.

Yes, the software was installed while logged in as administrator,
anti-virus was disabled too. I first installed AA7 using my original disc
and the same messages came up and the same problem existed i.e.. could not
convert to PDF. Uninstalled the software and installed again using the
serial no given to me by ADOBE help,CS2. Nothing seems to work.

Disabling "Save as..." popup in Acrobat Distiller printer driver

Hi!
We are using an application which is automatically generating a pdf file using the Acrobat Distiller printer driver, but recently one workstation start poping up a Save as... window each time a file is generated (it is very annoying since this application is generating a lot of different reports).
How we could avoid having to confirm each time the name of the file? Registry setting?
Thanks.
Claude Lachapelle
La Coop fédérée, Systems Administrator

Already did that.
If I remember correctly it was something in the registry... still searching.
Thanks.
Claude Lachapelle
La Coop fédérée, Systems Administrator

How to make changes to Adobe PDF (Distiller) printer's printing prefrences programatically?

I want to change the "Default Setting" in the Adobe PDF (Distiller) printer's printing prefrences programatically. How can i do that?

Why? I don't know :-)
When I compare the documents (single page 'export' vs booklet-spreads 'print booklet') at 800%, the images on the 'export' are crisp. The images on the booklet are seriously pixellated/unreadable.
If it *is* possible to get print-ready, I'd love to!
This is what I'm doing - any help is greatly appreciated.:
File > Print Booklet.
Displayed settings:
Printer: Adobe PDF
Booklet type: 2-up Saddle Stitch
Creep: 3mm
Margins: Automatically Adjust to Fit Marks and Bleeds
Print Blank Printer Spreads
Click Print Settings:
General:
Print Preset: [Custom]
Printer: Adobe PDF
Setup:Scale: 100%
Output:
Color: Composite CMYK
Graphics: Images: Send Data: All

Acrobat Distiller prints, but file never appears

I saw in the FAQs a message from 2004 on this topic, but the solution was specifically for if printing to the desktop, followed by the suggestion to "try the standard barrage of filesystem maintenance tasks (permissions repair, disk firstaid while booted off the OSX CD-ROM)."
(http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bb400e9)
Please can I get more info on this?
I am using the distiller (printing to Adobe PDF from KeyNote), and saving the file to a folder. My OS is 10.5.5.
Many thanks, Heide

Hi Mike:
Apologies for the long delay in response; have been working on other things of course.
I don't know how to use OS X's postscripting feature, but I did try and succeeded in creating a .ps file. When I try to open the file, however, it tells me there is a postscript conversion error and the file cannot be converted to pdf.
Manually distilling the file is exactly where the problem arises.
For giggles, I tried to select the OS X's pdf'ing feature instead of postscript or distilling, and it worked instantly! The dimensions are correct when I open it up, and the file size is large enough to indicate to me that the resolution is likely sufficiently high. I would not know for sure of course until finding out the hard way after sending it to the printers, but it seems to be a use-able file.
So, it seems that this is a pseudo-solution, at least so that I have a tool to bypass the problem when I next encounter it; however, I wonder if you have any ideas about how to actually fix the glitch? Does it have to do with the sorts of images that reside in the KeyNote file; if so, which file types does pdf not like and should be avoided?
Thanks,
Heide

How to add Acrobat Distiller printer driver?

I have Acrobat 4.0 installed on our Win 2003 server but I can not see Adobe Distiller in my printers and Faxes. Can anyone tell me how to add the Distiller printer/ Where is it located? Which driver should I use?
Thanks

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Missing Adobe distiller printer

I have installed Adobe Acrobat but i am missing the Adobe distiller printer. How can i correct this?

Sure Rahul,
I installed Acrobat XI Pro. Everything went fine. I have Acrobat installed and can open it as a program. However when I want to make a file by selecting de Adobe printer it is not there….
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Exporting pdf "acrobat distiller printer description not found" ERROR!

I just upgraded my g4 to tiger and I am running quark 5 on it. I can no longer export pdfs. I get an error saying "acrobat distiller printer description not found." I am stumped and I NEED to get this working!!
Anybody who knows how to fix this please let me know!
Thanks

You may need to re-install Adobe Acrobat Pro, assuming you need the functionality of Acrobat to create PDFs. To create simple PDF's there is a PDF menu on every print dialog box that does not require the Distiller printer description file.

Distiller Printer keeps disappearing

I have been using Distiller 5.0 for years and have never had a problem with it showing up in my printers and faxes list. Just recently the distiller printer disappeared from my printer list. NO problem, I just reinstalled distiller 5.0 and it was back, until I restarted and poof it was gone. I repeated the instillation and next restart gone again. Any ideas?

I got my distiller to stay put finally. I went into my add remove program list and deleted several Adobe products (air, toolkit etc..)that I do not use. Distiller 5.0 has not disappeared since. I am thinking one of them might have been the culprit? It might be Adobe's way to get you to buy Acrobat with the latest distiller? Just saying...

Acrobat 8 Professional (Distiller/Printing to PDF)

I'm running Acrobat 8 Pro with latest patches installed (8.1.6, I believe) and ran into an issue using Snow Leopard. I can get Acrobat 8 to load and run fine, allowing me to save PDFs from within the application. However, the Adobe 8.0 printer driver (distiller) appears broken in 10.6. If I select the printer it will go through the options of where to save the file, and a print queue for the document, but then it won't create it in the end. I know many of you are probably thinking "why print to Adobe PDF when you can just use the built-in PDF button to save as PDF instead." I guess I just like my apps to work. Removing/resetting the adobe driver through the 'add printer' option didn't seem to help. Anyone else try this yet?

This is a major Pain in the A>>. I work in a virtual office and share a pretty high volume of PDF documents as software requirements, diagrams, etc. I almost never print to actual paper, the PDF driver was my default printer. I would hit Cmd-P, Return, print a file name, Return and presto a PDF. Now I have to mouse around and find the "save to PDF" option from some ridiculous nearly hidden list of options in a drop down button. There's no keystroke or shortcut that I can find that allows me to do this w/out mousing around.
Sounds like Apple and Adobe ran out of time and the usability got left on the cutting room floor.
BTW, I'm on Acrobat 8 still, so I don't even have the option to "Print to Adobe PDF" - AND if I print to landscape mode, the view isn't rotated, the document is "sitting on its side" in portrait -- very frustrating...

Adobe CS6, Acrobat, Distiller & Print settings OK with Yosemite?

Has anyone with CS6 using InDesign and Acrobat software upgraded to Yosemite? Were print settings affected? Distiller functioning properly? InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator OK? Thanks!!!@

First you appear to be position in the forum. This forum is for Acrobat Distiller Server, not Acrobat Distiller on a Server. This is not a minor difference. Acrobat Distiller questions are handled in the Acrobat Windows or Acrobat Mac forum. Secondly, and more importantly, it is against the Acrobat license to use Acrobat and/or Distiller on a Server for the use of more than one person. The reason for this is that Adobe wishes to sell you products like Acrobat Distiller Server (now part of the LiveCycle Suite of products).
Alas, I cannot help you with the problem you are having since I have never heard of the font that is causing you an issue. Perhaps it was a font installed on a printer attached to your old computer/server.

Adobe Acrobat Distiller Prints every second page blank

Running Windows Vista with Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.1. When the user converts web base html document ( IE 8) to PDF in Legal format we end up with every second page bank or the footer over printing. We have changed the header/footer settings in Acrobat and under print properties to no avail. Other cleared cache reset IE users have exactly the same Vista image and install of Acrobat Pro and it is not an issue.
Any ideas on this thanks!

When printing deselect "Choose paper source by PDF page size"

How can I programatically control the names of files output from Labview into .pdf format (ie with Adobe PDF Writer or Distiller)?

I would like to save some data forms for a standard test controlled with labview in a pdf format. Due to the large number of forms and test reports, I would like to have Labview automatically assign the .pdf file name based on test number already contained in the labview code. How can I do this.
Note: This question is very similar to:
"Labview and Adobe Acrobat output" posted by John Balone on 1/26/2000. The reponses offered good suggestions but it is not clear to me how to implement them.

This information is essential if you plan to use the Acrobat Distiller printer driver and any of the examples listed here:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/EADE78F29101E8DB862567AC0058596B?opendocument&node=DZ52095_US
-Graeme, rayodyne.com
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Acrobat 8.0 Distiller problem - please help

I have Adobe 8.0 Profeessional installed on a vista machine.
I am trying to .pdf some lotus apporach reports into the distiller.
The distiller launches and acrobat launches fine.
When I choose the distiller printer and am asked for a file name and location... I choose a file name and the desktop location.
Then nothing happens. No .pdf of my document is displayed and no file is added anywhere on the hard drive yert alone on the desktop.
Anyone have a location where I can read step by step instrcutions on setting up the distiller printer corectly or help with these simptoms?
Thank you
Mark
[email address deleted by host]

You print to the Adobe PDF printer using the PDF Port. That is how AcroTray notes the file that is produced and starts Distiller. Printing to file with the Adobe PDF printer and then opening in Distiller is the base line of PDF creation that all other methods depend on. If this one does not work, then you have a problem. If you can print to file, then open the file in Distiller to get a PDF, then it is typically AcroTray that is the problem. Sometimes you have to kill AcroTray and then restart it.
It sounds like you may need to do a repair on the Acrobat installation. That is done from the control panel. In XP it is in the Add-Remove Programs. It was moved to another icon name in VISTA. It seems MS and Adobe both like to move things around and rename them!
You say you get an error when you check the print-to-file button, or at least that is what I think you said. Is that correct, or were you able to get a PDF with Distiller? Some folks have also found the need to do a repair after a Windows update. You might also want to look at the subversion you have. AA8 is up to either 8.1.7 or 8.2. You can check in the help file and then download any updates from Adobe.com>downloads>updates>Windows Acrobat. Be sure you install any updates in order, they are no cummulative unless it specifically says so.

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