Printing from a DOS application to Adobe PDF Printer

I have been asked to provide reports from a legacy DOS application to PDF and of course decided to use my Adobe PDF Printer that came with the copy of Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard I purchased. I am running Windows XP.
I am able to overcome the obvious problem of mapping LPT1 to the Adobe PDF Printer, however, all the DOS print jobs just sit there in the queue and do nothing. I have tried forcing a form feed within print processor but Adobe keeps overwriting the processor used with standard RAW.
What do I have to do create PDF's from DOS based print jobs?
I apologise if this question has been asked before and I have not managed to find it on searching through.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

This is not going to work. The printing architecture just doesn't do
what you want it to do.
The PDF printer works because a Windows program uses GDI (a
programming interface) to describe what it wants to print in graphical
terms. This gets converted to PDF. What you are hooking into in the
DOS world is just that part of the printer that carries the already
formed printer file to the printer hardware.
There may be hope if your DOS application is capable of printing to a
PostScript printer. If so, you can capture the stream and use
Distiller to convert it directly.
Aandi Inston

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