Printing to PDF vs Converting to PDF

I use Microsoft Office and each application has the feature to Convert to PDF. Also the Mac OS has the feature in any application to Print/Save as PDF. Which method is better? What are the differences?

I did find something interesting to reduce file sizes that were PDF by OSX printing. In adobe Acrobat, you can reduce the file size considerably. With the PDF document open in Acrobat, not reader, you select under documents "reduce file size..." It pulls up a box that let you select the Acrobat reader compatibility version. The higher the more reduction. I just reduced a PDF file that was 100 pages and 23MB in size. I reduced to Reader ver 8 and the file is now 9.3MB. It did come up with a couple of problems of not reducing some of the pictures, so it probably could have been even smaller. I do not know if I just used convert as this document has mixed page layout orientations of Portrait and landscape and the converter will only convert the first pages up to the first format change. I can not get past this issue.
I also reduced using the same method a Power Point Presentation from 6.7MB down to 1.1MB. There are a number of jpegs in the file, so I got some warnings again, but when viewing them side by side I can see only a slight difference.

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No "convert to pdf " and no " print to pdf " option after install

I installed adobe acrobat reader professional 8 at home ( WIN 7 ) and everything works great there, but after installing it at work ( WIN 7 ) i have no option when i right click a file in the drop down menu that says " convert to adobe pdf ", and also in word i have no option to " Print to PDF " in the printer menu.
Thoses options are on my home PC but not work PC ? the only thing i can think of is a USER RESTRICTION that is in place that does not give my user account the option to use thoses two options ?
Im I wrong ? and if so how can i get thoses options at work like i have at home ?
TY for any help giving

cyberskin99 wrote:
I installed adobe acrobat reader professional 8
First, you either have Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 Or Adobe Reader 8. Acrobat Reader Professional 8 does not exist.
If you have Acrobat, we'll try and work this out. If you have Reader, you don't get either of those items since it's made for viewing/printing PDF's.
My suggestion is to open the application you installed then go to the Help dropdown and see whether it says Acrobat or Reader. Also, be sure you don't have both products installed since that could cause similar issues as this.

When printing a PDF to PDF to make it non editable, it doesn't convert all the pages.

I have a user who routinely prints PDF's to PDF to make make the document non-editable. The issue is, when we print documents to PDF it will start "converting" the pages and about 5 seconds later a notification comes up saying that it's done. The document then comes up but only a couple of pages are converted.
The PDF's are typically large and usually contain a mix of landscape pages with stamps and comments. Would flattening the document serve the same purpose as printing a PDF to PDF?
Thank you

Thank you for your response. So I navigated to Advanced > Print Production and I see Flattener Preview. When I click on it I get a menu, I select all pages, hit "Ok", it then tells me that it cant be revearsed, I hit "Ok" and nothing happens. Document stays open, no message that it's complete, nothing. Is that how you flatten a document?
Thanks again.

Programs stop responding when I try to print to PDF

Info on what I'm using:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, SP1, 64-bit
Using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, version 8.1.0, up to date on updates
In this example, Microsoft Office 2007, no add-ons besides the Adobe Acrobat add-in that allows the creation of a PDF (but happens in all programs)
Problem:
I have always created a PDF from a Word/Excel document by printing to PDF (File --> Print --> Select Adobe PDF as printer --> Hit OK). Generally, the next step that occurs is a dialog box appearing that prompts me to select the location where I want to save the PDF and to specify a file name. Several weeks ago, this process stopped working. Now when I hit "Ok" to print to PDF, no dialog box appears and whatever program I'm in freezes/stops responding. Aside: I have tried printing to PDF from several other programs to see if the problem occurs in those as well, and it does -- printing to PDF freezes whatever program I am attempting to print from. (For example, MS Paint, Internet Explorer, Firefox, even Notepad)
Bullet point summary of what I have tried:
Canceling the print jobs in the Adobe PDF printer under "Devices and Printers" (jobs say they are canceling but never clear from the print queue unless I go into Services and restart my print spooler) and reprinting (freezes again)
Restarting computer (had no effect)
Setting Adobe PDF as my default printer (had no effect)
Setting TrueType font as "Native TrueType" under the Adobe PDF printer properties (Layout --> Advanced --> PostScript Options) (suggested in another thread I read about this problem; had no effect)
Checking to make sure that Word had not "adjusted" the security settings for the Adobe add-in (disabling it) under the Trust Center (Adobe add-in was still enabled, so nothing to change there)
Changing the printer properties to print directly to the printer rather than spooling first (had no effect)
Saving as PDF using File --> Save As --> Selecting PDF as file type (does work and is an acceptable substitute except when I need to convert multiple files to PDF at once and don't have time to go in to each individual file and convert it separately)
Repairing the Acrobat installation from within Adobe or from the Programs and Features menu under the Control Panel (does work, did fix the problem; but see followup below).
Repairing the Acrobat installation worked when I did it a few weeks ago. Once I went through the process, I attempted to print a document to PDF and it worked. But this morning when I attempted to print another document to PDF, it froze Word again and has been doing that ever since, so it does not seem to be a permanent fix. I had succesfully printed several documents to PDF this morning before it stopped working; the document I printed to PDF immediately before the document that froze was the exact same as the document froze in every way except the actual text (formatting, document objects, etc.). So I don't think it was something in the content of the document that "broke" the Adobe PDF printer.
I am sure I can try repairing the Adobe installation again, but I really do not want to have to do that all of the time. Does anyone know what the problem is? I haven't found anything that explains what's going on.

Anyone?

Unable to print a PDF file using the BI Publishing server

Hi,
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I can access through the url that server.
From my desktop I access through an url my Oracle APEX application.
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Download:
PDF option is checked.
When I click on Action -> Download -> PDF for this page, I get the error:
<file>. pdf file can not be opened because the file type is not supported or because it is damaged (because, for example as an e-mail attachment is not sent and correctly decoded)
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Kind Regards.

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When I make a Book in Aperture and print a PDF proof version, all the modified photos (marked with Badges) are totally distorted. What is causing this? All other - non-modified photos - appear to be fine.

When I make a Book using Aperture 3 and print a PDF proof version, all images that have been modified within Aperture are distorted in PDF form. All other images appear ok.

As if only the corrected layer would have remained on the photos.
So the geometry of the pictures is correct - they are not skewed or something? Only the colors and intensities are wrong?
. Only in printing when it is converted to PDF file some photos are unrecognizable.
Is it the printed pdf or the pdf viewed on the screen? If it is the printed copy you need to fix your print settings.
Does Aperture give a warning, that the high resolution images are not available?
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We were shooting with 3 cameras, Lumix5 shooting RAW, Cannon 100 shooting JPEG and SONY alfa850 shooting RAW.
Have you tried to reprocess the raw of the edited images? (Photos > Reprocess Raw)
Also try, to remove one of the images from the book and to add it again. That usually helps, if Aperture has lost the connection to the originals used in the book.
If you no have done so already, repair (and if necessary rebuild) the Aperture library.
See: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
Regards
Léonie

Print a PDF report having a field(column table) with a HTML code

hello every one,
I have a table where a column(varchar2) have HTML code inside it.
Because all my reports are in PDF format, how can I print this column, when I print in PDF I see all HTML tag and it isn't formatted.
Have Anyone same problem, could I convert in PDf before I print it?
Thanks in advance for help

You need to set "Contains HTML tags" to YES, so that the HTML code is formated in the report.
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Can't print scanned pdf files Xerox 3450 Adobe Pro and Reader 9

I have a user that cannot print PDF's made up of scanned images to a network printer.
The job goes to the printer and spools up but hangs at either 64kb or 255kb and then errors out.
Even if I print just one page, it does the same thing.
Folks with Acrobat Pro 8 or Reader 8 can print the same file to the same printer with no problems.
OS: XP
Network Printer: Xerox Phaser 3450 PS
Adobe: Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat Professional 9.1.3
I have tried the following:
On the Xerox 3450 PS Printer:
- disabling Advanced Printing Options
- changing Post script options to: EPS, optimize for speed, optimize for portablity
- reloading the printer drivers
- unmapping/remapping the printer on the customer's system.
In the Reader and Acrobat Pro print options:
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- tried using Language level 2
- reinstalling Adobe Reader 9
This happens once the customer is upgraded to Adobe Reader 9. If I disable the 'Advanced Printer options' he can print OCR/Text PDF files but cannot print even a single page Scanned image PDF file. The spooler hangs at 255kb and then the print job errors out.
I confirmed this same issue on multiple machines and on other Xerox 3450 printers on multiple print servers. It is the same for Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.
The machines and users are in different parts of the country on different print servers but the symptoms are the same: after being upgraded to Adobe Reader 9.1.3 or Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1.3 they cannot send certain PDF files (so far just scanned image files) to a Xerox 3450 PS network printer.
Any suggestions on what to try next would be appreciated.

This problem plagued me for several weeks, until I found a solution that has allowed me to print scanned documents as quickly as a text document.
I have confirmed this worked on several network X3450 printers using Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Adobe Acrobat Professional v9.1.3
In the Reader and Acrobat Pro print options:
    Click on the Advanced button and uncheck "Print as image" if it's checked.
    Click on "Let printer determine colors" to enable this option
    Click OK and Print.
After making this change, the document queued up and printed as fast a any text document printed.
I had a single page scanned text document which was about 19 KB, but when sent to the printer, the spooler grew from 10 MB to 50 MB to 80 MB, until an error occurred. Like you I tried many combinations until one worked. Then it was a matter of figuring out which setting was primarily responsible for allowing it to print quickly.
Most likely the problem is with the raster image processor (RIP) within Adobe Reader and Acrobat. By selecting the option to "Let the printer determine colors", it passes that part of the processing over to the RIP within the printer. Since the X3450 is not a color printer, the information is easily converted to grayscale and printed.
I'm still trying to absorb the information in the articles I have read so far, and I welcome any discussion about this from those more knowledgeable than I.
I hope this fix works for you as it did for me. I made a lot of happy customers once they were able to print since most of their documents are scanned rather than created with Acrobat.

Strange transparency problem trying to print a pdf made in Pages

Hello,
Let me apologize in advance for this one, I think it's probably a doosy.
Not having the know-how to efficiently do a layout in InDesign, I have been doing print projects in Pages. It has worked fine in the past to print to Adobe PDF postscript from Pages, open up Distiller and convert to a CMYK pdf from there. For my current project it worked fine for the first 2 renditions, but for the 3rd edition (incidentally the one the printing company printed) looked very "muddy." Fonts were very rough and rasterized badly, and the whole thing looked kind of "brown-washed". They claimed to use a program called "Apogee" which they said told them there was a transparent layer over everything, converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness.They've also said that it must be a setting in Pages that has caused this, but I can't see how that's possible! When I look at the source file in pages there is no such transparency. Several of the images do have their opacity decreased to varying degrees to help the whole piece blend, however this transparency they say Apogee pulled off the top cannot be seen from my end. We are down to the wire trying to get this job to print again, but I am stumped as to how to ensure that this rendition of the file will be done correctly.
As perhaps a side note, Distiller seems to be a pretty quirky application for me, often failing to convert on the first or second try, but somehow "magically" working on the second or third attempt for no apparent reason and without doing anything differently.
Thanks so much for any help - I am definitely cracking out the books and forcing myself to learn InDesign after this nightmare!
- A-J L.

They claimed to use a program called "Apogee"
Agfa Apogee, introduced in 1998, was simply the first prepress workflow product that processed page-independent PDF instead of processing page-dependent PostScript into an internal and intermediate display list prior to marking. The prepress operator would be using Apogee to preflight the PDF you submit as printing master, and the problems found in the preflight are those of which you were informed.
As perhaps a side note, Distiller seems to be a pretty quirky application for me,
Adobe Acrobat Distiller has been difficult to configure since the day it was introduced.
Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a PostScript interpreter that converts page-dependent PostScript page description programs into page-independent PDF page descriptions without programming loops and links that produce dependencies. PDF uses a directory design for the objects in the page descriptions, a design that originates with Xerox Interpress (the idea of a directory is in fact printed on page 390 of "Interpress - The Source Book" by Harrington and Buckley published in 1988).
converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness.They've also said that it must be a setting in Pages that has caused this, but I can't see how that's possible!
It is left to 'application intelligence' whether to match RGB black for type to CMYK black for type or to match RGB black for type to separationBlack for one plate/plane on a four plate/plane offset press. The problem with an offset press is that it lays down the inks at inking units that are some distance apart which invites misregistration. QuarkXPress, PageMaker, InDesign and other authoring applications developed for PostScript imaging on offset presses have ink palettes with four fixed inks of which Black produces separationBlack.
Pages does not have this possibility, so if you want your type to image as deviceK / separationBlack then you need to select your type and apply the following procedure, or set up styles with the following procedure applied. Open the Apple Colour Palette, select the CMYK slider mode, select some type, select the Advanced icon (the colour space icon on the left), in the drop-down menu select Device CMYK, and set the slider to C0, M0, Y0, K100. This procedure can be used by the typographer to control that deviceK / separationBlack is imaged, but for as long as Microsoft Word has produced type that is RGB, prepress processes have intercepted this in PostScript and reset it to deviceK / separationBlack including Helios colour management for OPI.
In prepress there is no way to please all parties. If you as developer say, "OK, I'll set the type to deviceK and then show this colour managed on the display" then you will have designers and people who write for designers like Sandee Cohen yelling at you for making type less black than they think type should be, even if in fact the colour of type printed on diffusing uncoated paper is way lighter than they think. And if you say, "OK, I'll set the type to R0 G0 B0 so it is as black as the designers think type should be" then you'll have the prepress crowd with their offset presses yelling at you. Neither party accept that black is a colour, one wants type to be as black as possible regardless and the other party wants type to mark on one and only one printing plate/plane regardless.
converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness
I would wager a box of Carlsberg beer that the prepress operator is ignorant of the controls in Agfa Apogee, and that Agfa Apogee has a control to catch RGB type and convert to deviceK / separationBlack. Try telling the prepress operator to READ the manual -:).
Several of the images do have their opacity decreased to varying degrees to help the whole piece blend, however this transparency they say Apogee pulled off the top cannot be seen from my end.
Generally speaking, you should not be sending plain PDF to prepress. You should be sending PDF/X-3 which depends on you as designer flattening transparency, or better still PDF/X-4 which passes the problem of flattening transparency to the application intelligence of the prepress raster processing system. PDF 1.3 does not support transparency nor does EPS and nor does PostScript any language level.
/hh

How to save edit settings under preferrences to use when creating or printing a PDF from word 2003 Windows PC 8.1

I have tried to save my PDF settings after editing them, but when I go to "Print" to PDF and check the settings I keep getting Standard default settings.
There is no Adobe PDF listed as a file heading to change conversion settings on my Word screen.
I have tried to create a PDF by open file through the Adobe application and also by trying to print through the Word application with document open and using Adobe PDF as the printer driver.I have changed or edited the settings but they do not appear as an option to select, just the standard default settings.
I have been able to save my setting as a Adobe PDF job options, but can't access them or use them when it comes time to convert to PDF.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I have apprached it 3 different ways:
- by opening acrobat and going to preferrences, clining on convert to PDf
- Microsoft Word, then changes each section of the edit settings, ie
general, fonts, images, etc make the cahneges then hit OK, at this point I
get a save as option rather than a save. It saves my changes as a PDF, but I
am not able to access it when I go to make the PDF.
- I also have tried to print PDF from Word and got to properties to make
the changs with the same results as above.
- Then I tried yur suggestion and went to the printer in the control panel
and had the same results.
I am using mircosoft word 2003 which has been compatable with my windows 8.1
I think the problem may be I am using a "trial" version of Adobe Acrotbat DC
2105 version. It must not belettingme save the setting changes.But this
shouldnot be if they want me to really experience the full effects of the
program.
I appreciate your help, thanks

Using Excel VBA to Print to PDF File?

Hi, All !!
I have an Excel VBA application that creates Excel reports. These need to be sent external to our company in PDF format. I've downloaded the Acrobat SDK and have found the VB sample for AdobePDFSilent. Unfortunately, it appears that this is written for VB or VB.Net as I don't have any of the data types available that are created in the code. However, from another forum, I've gotten some VB code that appears to do many of the processes included in the SDK sample.
The code below doesn't give me any errors, but no PDF file is created.
My VBA code
Declare Function RegOpenKeyA Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
    ByVal Key As Long, _
    ByVal SubKey As String, _
    NewKey As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" ( _
    ByVal hKey As Long, _
    ByVal lpValueName As String, _
    ByVal Reserved As Long, _
    ByVal dwType As Long, _
    lpData As Any, _
    ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
    ByVal hKey As Long) As Long
Sub TestPrintPDF()
    Dim strDefaultPrinter As String
    Dim strOutFile As String
    Dim lngRegResult As Long
    Dim lngResult As Long
    Dim dhcHKeyCurrentUser As Long
    Dim PDFPath As String
    Const dhcRegSz As Long = 1
1    Workbooks.Open ("\\master\fnshares\bcbcm\Client Management\Client Services\New Account Fees\09 September 2010\3Q10 Rebate Ltrs\Infi\MacroTest\A02.xls")
2    Select Case ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count
3        Case 1
4            Sheets(1).Select
5        Case 2
6            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name)).Select
7        Case 3
8            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name)).Select
9        Case 4
10            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, Sheets(4).Name)).Select
11        Case 5
12           Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, Sheets(4).Name, Sheets(5).Name)).Select
13      Case 6
14         Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, Sheets(4).Name, Sheets(5).Name, Sheets(6).Name)).Select
15 End Select
16 dhcHKeyCurrentUser = &H80000001
17 strDefaultPrinter = Application.ActivePrinter
18 PDFPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator 'The directory in which you want to save the file
19 strOutFile = PDFPath & Left(ActiveWorkbook.Name, Len(ActiveWorkbook.Name) - 4) & ".pdf" 'Change the pdf file name if required. This should have the fully qualified path
20 lngRegResult = RegOpenKeyA(dhcHKeyCurrentUser, "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Distiller\PrinterJobControl", lngResult)
21 lngRegResult = RegSetValueEx(lngResult, Application.Path & "\Excel.exe", 0&, dhcRegSz, ByVal strOutFile, Len(strOutFile))
22 lngRegResult = RegCloseKey(lngResult)
23 ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.PrintOut copies:=1, ActivePrinter:="Adobe PDF"
24 Application.ActivePrinter = strDefaultPrinter
25 ActiveWorkbook.Close False
End Sub
From what I can determine, the lines 17 & 24 combined basically accomplish the same thing as the SaveandUpdateDefaultPrinter function in the SDK (get and save the current default printer and return it to that default after printing the PDF).
Line 20 opens the Registry key for Distiller\PrinterJobControl which is done in part of the ConvertFile function in the following SDK code.
SDK Code
            Dim objDistillerRegKey As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.ClassesRoot
            Dim strDistillerSubKey As String = "SOFTWARE\\Adobe\\Acrobat Distiller\\PrinterJobControl"
            'Open Current User's Distiller Subkey for writing
            objDistillerRegKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(strDistillerSubKey, True)
Line 21 sets the Registry key for Excel with the name of the PDF file to output which also appears to be done in part of the ConvertFile function in the following code.
SDK Code
           If (Not objDistillerRegKey Is Nothing) Then     'set reg key value for this app and file
                objDistillerRegKey.SetValue(strAppPath, strOutputFile)
                objDistillerRegKey.Close()
            End If
I have verified, using RegEdit, that this Registry key does get set with the desired output filename.
Line 23 prints the Excel file to PDF when done manually (this was recorded using the Excel Macro Recorder). This should be comparable to the PrintToAdobePDF function in the SDK as below.
SDK Code
    Private Sub PrintToAdobePDF(ByVal InputfilePath As String)
        'Prints InputFilePath to the AdobePDF printer.
        'Since we just gathered all this info programmatically,
        'this function assumes the file is present, that it has an
        'associated application and that the current user has print privileges.
        'Define properties for the print process
        Dim pProcInfo As New ProcessStartInfo
        pProcInfo.FileName = InputfilePath
        pProcInfo.Verb = "Print"
        'Make process invisible
        pProcInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
        pProcInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
        'start print process
        Dim pMyProc As Process = Process.Start(pProcInfo)
        pMyProc.WaitForExit()
    End Sub
These are some of the statements I can't do because I don't have a ProcessStartInfo type. What am I doing wrong or NOT doing that the PDF file is not created? I hope I've described my situation in enough, but not too much detail. Thanks for your help.
Nate Brei

Reinhard & Karl Heinz,
Thank you both for your responses and willingness to work with me on this problem. This is driving me crazy & is getting very frustrating. It seems that I've tried everything that people have suggested (I've also posted on a VB Forum that I subscribe to) and I'm basically doing what works for everyone else but doesn't work for me. I've got to be close.
Reinhard, regarding your last post, it doesn't appear to be a one-time setting. Everytime I come into the Printers Property box (even after I've printed a PDF document manually, that option about system & document fonts is ALWAYS turned on. If it is a registry setting, please let me know how to turn it off. I'm using Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard.
Karl Heinz, I've tried that based on my initial post (see the code there). Since your post, I tried it again. I get the same result, NO FILE is produced anywhere.
I wish I could post pictures, but evidently I can't. So, I going to post first my code (in case you want to try to recreate my problem), then the values of the variables in that code when I run it (so you can I have everything set correctly as far as I know), and finally, the values of the Registry entries that I have after I run it. So, please bear with me as the post may be a little long.
My Code
Declare Function RegOpenKeyA Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
    ByVal Key As Long, _
    ByVal SubKey As String, _
    NewKey As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" ( _
    ByVal hKey As Long, _
    ByVal lpValueName As String, _
    ByVal Reserved As Long, _
    ByVal dwType As Long, _
    lpData As Any, _
    ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
    ByVal hKey As Long) As Long
Sub TestPrintPDF()
    Dim strDefaultPrinter As String
    Dim strOutFile As String
    Dim lngRegResult As Long
    Dim lngResult As Long
    Dim dhcHKeyCurrentUser As Long
    Dim PDFPath As String
    Const dhcRegSz As Long = 1
    'Workbooks.Open ("\\master\fnshares\bcbcm\Client Management\Client Services\New Account Fees\09 September 2010\3Q10 Rebate Ltrs\Infi\MacroTest\A02.xls")
    Workbooks.Open ("H:\A02.xls")
    Select Case ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Count
        Case 1
            Sheets(1).Select
        Case 2
            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name)).Select
        Case 3
            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name)).Select
        Case 4
            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, _
             Sheets(4).Name)).Select
        Case 5
            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, _
             Sheets(4).Name, Sheets(5).Name)).Select
        Case 6
            Sheets(Array(Sheets(1).Name, Sheets(2).Name, Sheets(3).Name, _
             Sheets(4).Name, Sheets(5).Name, Sheets(6).Name)).Select
    End Select
    dhcHKeyCurrentUser = &H80000001
    strDefaultPrinter = Application.ActivePrinter
    'The directory in which you want to save the file
    PDFPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & Application.PathSeparator
    'Change the pdf file name if required. This should have the fully qualified path
    strOutFile = PDFPath & Left(ActiveWorkbook.Name, Len(ActiveWorkbook.Name) - 4) & ".pdf"
    lngRegResult = RegOpenKeyA(dhcHKeyCurrentUser, "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Distiller\PrinterJobControl", _
        lngResult)
    lngRegResult = RegSetValueEx(lngResult, Application.Path & "\Excel.exe", 0&, dhcRegSz, _
        ByVal strOutFile, Len(strOutFile))
    lngRegResult = RegCloseKey(lngResult)
    ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.PrintOut copies:=1, ActivePrinter:="Adobe PDF"
    'ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.PrintOut copies:=1, preview:=False, ActivePrinter:="Adobe PDF", _
        printtofile:=True, collate:=True, prtofilename:=strOutFile
    'Call printToPdf(strOutFile)
    Application.ActivePrinter = strDefaultPrinter
    ActiveWorkbook.Close False
End Sub
Sub printToPdf(PDFFilename)
    ' Define a postscript file name
    PSFileName = "H:\TempPostScript.ps"
    ' Print the Excel range to the postscript file
    'Dim MySheet As Worksheet
    'Set MySheet = ActiveSheet
    ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut copies:=1, preview:=False, ActivePrinter:="Adobe PDF", _
        printtofile:=True, collate:=True, prtofilename:=PSFileName
    ' Convert the postscript file to .pdf
    Set myPDF = CreateObject("PdfDistiller.PdfDistiller.1")
    myPDF.FileToPDF PSFileName, PDFFilename, ""
End Sub
Values of my Variables When I Run the Code
? dhcHKeyCurrentUser
     -2147483647
? strDefaultPrinter
     \\tcps01p\FNT12W00 Canon 5020 PCL 5e on Ne04:
? PDFPath
     H:\
? strOutFile
     H:\A02.pdf
? lngResult
     2280
? Application.Path & "\Excel.exe
     C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe
? dhcRegSz
     1
? Len(strOutFile)
     10
? PSFileName
     H:\TempPostScript.ps
? PDFFilename
     H:\A02.pdf
Values of my Registry Entries (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Distiller\PrinterJobControl)
(Default)          REG_SZ          (value not set)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe          REG_SZ          H:\A02.pdf
LastPdfPortFolder - EXCEL.EXE          REG_SZ          "Q:\Client Management\Client Services\New Account Fees\09 September 2010\3Q10 Rebate Ltrs\Infi\MacroTest
Note: There are a couple of other entries for documents that I've printed manually that I didn't include. Also, the last entry above, contains the value of the folder that I last manually "printed" to.
I've also noticed that I have a Registry SubKey under PrinterJobControl called DownloadFonts. However, the only entry there is:
     (Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
Is this the registry key you mentioned, Reinhard?
As you can see in my code, I have 3 different methods that I've tried to print. The first one defaults everything after selecting the Acrobat PDF printer. The second sets the output filename as a PDF (basically what you suggested, Karl Heinz). The third method calls a procedure that prints to a PostScript file & then uses Distiller to print from that file to pdf. This is the method Reinhard suggested.
With the first 2 methods, I get NO error messages, but no file(s) show up. With the 3 method, I get the error about the Fonts checkbox, but it creates a 0K PostScript file. When I skip that statement and run the other 2 statements, I get a log file that says the PostScript file is empty and not PDF file was created.
YIKES... What's going on? Thanks again for attempting to help me!!!
Nate

Problem with colors when print to pdf in FM9

Hi,
we have some problems with printing colors to pdf with FM9.
The FM document contains (1) eps file with a green box and (2) a rectangle created with FM graphic tools, filled with the same green color values (91/0/60/44)
In FrameMaker the two colors really looks different, but so what, in the PDF both colors (eps) and rectangle got the same correct green color.
Ok, the were different in creation, so they were CMYK and RGB, but your print shop could manage that.
Now in FM 9:
(1) If I do a "save as PDF" and switch OFF "convert CMYK to RGB" the resulting PDF is the same as from FM8 (correct)
(2) If I print to PDF via distiller and define the job options to "convert all colors to CMYK" the resulting rectangle green is very different from the eps green.
I tried different job options, the best result was "convert all colors to CMYK", other options just very more ugly.
Does someone of you know a solution for your problem? Help is very appreciated. I could send example files if necessary.
Thanks in advance.
PK

PK-ulm wrote:
But we want to use the print option, using the distiller.
Pia,
this last sentence needs some explanation, I think. Why do you want to use the print option?
Using the print option, you still go the same route as FrameMaker Win always did, which is using the RGB-only Windows postscript driver. Now, with FM9, you have the option to get CMYK colors directly to PDF, as defined, without any color conversion. And it *does* work, as long as you restrict your documents to either CMYK colors or spot colors coming from the FM libraries.
So, again: why do you want to use the print option?
On a sidenote: I'm not sure if I interpret your username correctly, but if you are able to understand German, you'll find some in-depth color tests made with FM9 here: http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/foren/FM_9_und_Farben_in_PDFs____getestet_P387800.html
Bernd

Unable to print to pdf from any of my applications

Hello,
I am running Acrobat 8.0 on windows 7. Toshiba Qosmio 64 bit. I am unable to print to pdf from any of my applications. Office, Mozilla, Lotus 1-2-3 and others. When I choose the print option. And from the drop down menu choose Adobe PDF as the printer. And when I click to continue I get the little metered bar showing it's working, but then I get an error in the printer que. I don't even get an option what to save it as or where to save it to. It just goes straight to the metered bar showing its working. And it does this for all my programs where I can print to pdf. Can anyone help me? Also, this is a student version. Could the student version be unable to do this?
Thank you,
JimmyJoney

Although Acrobat 8 is not supported on Win 7, you can try a few things. First, apply all updates to Acrobat 8. If this doesn't help, check to make sure that the PDF port was created. If not, you can try:
Open Control Panel, select Printers
* Click Add a Printer
* Click Add a local printer
* Select Use an existing port (should be preselected), change the port to "Desktop \*.pdf (Adobe PDF Port), click Next
* On the next page, click Have Disk...
* Click Browse and browse to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF (or wherever you have Acrobat installed), click OK.
* It should now show a series of "Adobe PDF Converter" entries. Select the first one and click Next
* Change the printer name if desired, uncheck the box to use it as a default printer, click Next
* Do not print a test page, click Finish
* Find your new printer in Printers. Right click on it and select Properties, Advanced
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Interesting. What happens if you open Acrobat and select:
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I can't print to PDF from Illustrator CS3

I have been using CS3 for a while now, but the last two jobs I have attempted to print to PDF with have failed. I get the message, "Can't Print the Illustration" and then the following error message:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%
%%[ Error: invalidrestore; OffendingCommand: restore ]%%
Stack:
-save-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
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You can try these:
1. first make a copy of the file.
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3. If not, start a new file. Copy and paste each item individually to the new file and try to make a pdf each time. You will soon work out the offending item.

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Here are three questions that may be related to each other. I've wanted to ask them for a long time but kept hoping they would somehow resolve themselves. Any advice would be appreciated.
1. When I print a PDF file to Adobe PDF as an image, the black color (even the fonts) becomes gray and blurry. The selection to print as an image is made in Print (to PDF) - Advanced Print Setup - Settings Custom / Print as Image (resolution 600 dpi, which is the highest available choice). This happens regardless of what settings I choose in Print - Properties (Standard, High Quality Print, etc.).
2. Running OCR on occasion does something similar. The letters become blurry and grayish. Everything is more difficult to read after OCR. It's as if Adobe has chosen to substitute the font or color for something blurry. It's strange.
3. Sometimes OCR doesn't make things worse. The quality doesn't deteriorate. In this case I wonder whether the quality should actually improve rather than stay as is. If a letter is recognized despite the fact that its image is not perfect, shouldn't it be substituted in the document by a perfectly solid letter with no defects by using one of the regular Adobe fonts? Should a real font be used instead of an image of the letter that has been recognized in OCR?
Are my settings wrong or am I doing something wrong? I'm using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
Thanks in advance.

What version of Acrobat? What OS? What are your choices when creating the OCR? Without knowing how you are doing things, it is hard to answer.
It is not clear why you want to create images in a PDF from a current PDF. For a black type style, it is probably better to use a preflight script to convert to gray-scale first and then do your graphic conversion (I am not asking why you want to do this, but just trying to address your question).

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