How to install an old PPD on Windows 7 ?

Question

OK - this will be tricky.
We are a small offset print shop and use ID CS4 to both design and do our colour seperations with. We use an old(ish) Panther Imagesetter which serves us well.
We have just purchased a new PC, and as XP pro is hard to get these days, and with Windows 7 clearly the way of the future -  we have taken the leap ... especially as we have updated all our design software to CS4 I thought we wouldn't have any issues.
However .... Windows 7 will not install the old Panther PPD's - basically tells me that they're not compatible with a 64bit OS.
Any ideas ? We're a bit stuffed if I can't get this working 

Answer 1

It's always amazing to me how discussions of PostScript bog down with Windows users.
It's either Windows users never use PostScript or some other reason I can't understand.
What is needed is a simple way to place a PPD file on Windows 7 so the user can select the option of writing a PostScript file to disk and referencing that particular PPD. We don't need or want a printer driver in this case because we are not actually printing to any particular device.
Why someone needs to do that comes under the category of "If you have to ask then you really don't understand the issue so you're probably not ready to receive the explanation."
But I'll try to explain it. We in printing have been writing PostScript files to disk since it was possible to do so.
Why do we do it? Because we don't "PRINT" to a printer. We create a file and then "SUBMIT" it to a "RIP" that lets us preview the file or or we pre-process it with additional software that might do something like imposition or color separating or whatever.
Many times we need to write a PostScript file to disk and distill it as opposed to exporting a PDF directly because either the application has no PDF export or we need controlls for the file creation that are not in the export dialogs.
Sometimes it's a more complex issue of flattening transparency when the export function is supposed to do it but doesn't work correctly. I know that comes as a shock that an aspect of expensive software might not work correctly and we have to use a work-around but trust me, it happens.
Not meaning to start a Mac/Windows holy war but this is so easy to do on a Mac. You just place the PPD in a directory and it's becomes available to the application with no need to install a printer driver.
Now it appears that someone is finally suggesting it might be as simple as:
1. Drag your PPD to the following path:  c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3
I'll try this an pray that it really is this simple.
And it is.
So, we don't need to install the Adobe PostScript (or any other) printer drive to make a PPD available to Indesign for the purpose of writing a PostScript file to disk.
Life is good again.