PDFing from PPT 2007 using Acrobat 9 Pro - custom options

I have just installed Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and i have (unfortunately)PowerPoint 2007. I need to be able to export as a pdf to very specific parameters for our print house and they do not want to play with each other very well. PPT has an idiot button that defaults straight to a pdf without letting me set up the doc in the manner needed - i.e. as handouts at 2400 dpi. I can set the output for everything but the handout feature. That has to be done using the print option in PPT. When we load a driver labeled Adobe PDF and i print to file - the .prn file gets cranky and looks for a specific joboption extention that has been created and saved where Adobe went when i did a save as under the preferences for the settings needed for the print house. It doesn't seem to know to look there when trying to make a pdf using a .prn file. Any suggestions??
Thank you,
Barbara

Don't print to file. If you want to convert the PRN file, open it in Distiller. The conversion settings are in the settings file on the second menu in Distiller. They may be ignored since you created the prn file with the Adobe PDF printer.
When you get a settings file from a printer that you need to use, open Distiller and under the menu items with the settings file, select to install a new settings file. Then install the one you received. Once it is installed, go back to PPT and print the handouts to the Adobe PDF printer (no printing to file, but direct). Before you print, select the printer properties and change the settings file to the new one loaded into Distiller.
That should do it.

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