I don't have a PPD Adobe PDF 8 setting, HELP!

Question

Hello,
I'm on a crunch deadline, and recently switched to a new computer. I have to make a post script file for a newspaper with seperations. However, every time I do, the PDF default to an 8half by 11 inch pdf. The ad is full page newspaper, so obviously, I'm missing alot of ad.
I think I narrowed it down to setting my PPD in the Print Dialog to Adobe PDF 8.0. Unfortunately, it's not there. How can I get it? Or what must I do to make my seperation postscript come out correctly sized?
Please help, I only have a few hours before this is due!
Huckle Berry

Answer 1

Huckle Berry,
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<br />I can now say with some confidence that the problem you have with not seeing Adobe PDF 8 in the Printer pop up in the Print dialog is not a Leopard problem. Let me explain.
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<br />I posed the following question with a Preps Tech support person:
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<br />"I &#160;simply want to know if Adobe PDF 8 (as installed by Acrobat Pro
<br />8.1.2) shows up in the Print pop up button in the InDesign Print
<br />dialog in *Leopard*? I cannot test that myself, as I do not have
<br />Leopard yet."
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<br />and received the following reply:
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<br />"Yes, I believe it does. Heres a screen capture of the evidence.
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<a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1SvlrGtLo0hErifrN5pJNlvz9SWFX0" /></a>
<img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1SvlrGtLo0hErifrN5pJNlvz9SWFX0_thumb.png" border="0" />
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<br />In the same exchange with this support person, I learned that the virtual printer method that I was offering you indeed does NOT work in Leopard, so it would not have worked for you. But the method you were referring to in your original post should work in Leopard. So there is something else malfunctioning in you set up.
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<br />Not what you wanted to hear, at least now you can pursue the real problem. I does seem like Adobe is not at fault here.
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<br />Al