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deerless

deerless

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Oct 11, 2003
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How do I open the PPD on my Illustrator program? I have a pc and that area appears, but nothing is highlighted.
 
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deerless. A PPD is a Postscript Printer Driver. It is not a graphics file. You use it to run a virtual printer such as Acrobat Distiller so as to be able to do, for example, colour seperations from Illustrator to a PDF file. To use it in AI 10 you go to File>Seperation Setup then choose Open PPD.
 
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I have done that, but the screen is not highlighted. It only comes up as a gray area with nothing to click on to. What am I doing wrong?
 
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Do you have a postscript printer (or virtual printer)installed/attached on your computer?
 
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i was finally able to get the ppd opened in the program. thanks for your help. what i am looking for now is an original copy of the illustrator 8.0 user guide book?
 
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I am also having problems with color sep's. I select the ppd for my printer but it still won't print the dot patterns on screens. Do I need a different ppd?
 
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