Ppd - loading & setting print presets

Hello...can anyone help me with the installation of my .ppd file  presets? I have all of the files (supplied to me by my printer - to  format my pdf files) but do not know where to install them in my system. The goal is to have these pdf settings to be available to me via  Indesign CS2 PC. Right now, I cannot figure out how to have these preset  files show up in the print preset field as an option. Thanks in advance  for any help!

Around here, ID is shorthand for InDesign.
Using the settings for your local printer is as likely to give you terrible results with the Chinese press as it is to give you good results. Color management is based on knowing the input conditions (source profiles) AND the output conditions (destination profiles). If you don't have the correct profiles for the press in China, ASK FOR THEM. You cannot produce a PDF with good color, except by accident, without the profiles.
I also have a client who has had a couple of books printed in China, and there was nothing uncomplicated about it all. It took weeks of repeated asking to get them to provide an output profile. Ultimately, the reprodcution was very good, but I was quite close to telling the client that we would have to send native files in RGB and let the printer do the color conversion there, thereby washing my hands of responsibility for the quality of the color match.  We finally got the profile, but I still sent the native files (in their CMYK space), just in case.
PDF/X-4 is designed to export a tagged PDF file for further conversion when you don't know the ultimate output conditions (you would leave the images in RGB). This is not supported in CS2, however. You might get similar results, though, by sending a PDF with "no color conversion" and "include all profiles" selected in the output options. Gettng the correct profile would be preferable, though, in my opinion, since it would allow for fine tuning images before the export.
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