printing to Adobe Acrobat and Winfax Pro

[absnj]

I run Smartsuite 9.7 under Windows XP and cannot print to the Acrobat 5.05 or Winfax Pro 10.02 drivers from Approach. Normal printing is no problem. I have tried both spooled and direct printing without success. Any suggestions?

 

[paulbent]

I don't have either but I've heard the PDF Writer normally works OK but Distiller doesn't. I use the Zeon DocuCom Driver 5.x and it works very well. You can download an evaluation copy from

http://www.zeon.com.tw/

There have been one or two reports of Approach not printing with WinFax Pro 10 and I haven't seen a solution. Have you tried changing the spool format from EMF to RAW or vica versa? Is there an updated driver available from WinFax?

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[absnj]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did a complete uninstalla and reinstall of Acrobat reader, including the 5.05 update, and can now print from Wordpro, but still no success with Approach. I've fooled a bit with the different print processors, but have to try some more.

Do you have any experience with Smith Micro's Hotfax message center or other fax programs? I don't need powerful, just some that works with my existing software!

Alan

 

[paulbent]

Sorry, I haven't had a fax modem for a few years now and don't know what works and doesn't. There are web based fax services to which you can send an e-mail with pdf attachment and the pdf gets faxed onwards automatically. Have a look at

http://www.efax.com

Paul Bent
Northwind IT Systems

http://www.northwindit.co.uk

 

[Bovick]

I have had similar problems running Approach 9.7 on WinXP mainly because I was using a very old PDF driver from Adobe. I have now a lot of success using a very inexpensive driver (a free evaluation is available) from

http://www.pdf995.com.

 

[absnj]

Thanks for the PDF tip- it works great with both WorpPro and Approach!