Won't create a PDF. 1

[guymason]

Hello
I have a win2000 PC, SP4, Freehand, Phtotshop and Pagemaker amongst other programs.
I have installed Adobe Acrobat 5. But even though Distiller is present in the Printers folder, when I try to create a PDF in, for example, Word; Word seems to go through the process, even asks you where you want the PDF stored, but then hangs. I have deleted all the others printers and reinstalled Acrobat and Office but still nothing, any ideas?

 

[Murgle]

Are you using PDFMaker or printing directly via distiller? Personally I always use distiller directly as PDFMaker tends to hang for me.
I use v5.05 on win2K, apart from the PDFMaker issue the only other problem I had was when I first installed it - I had to run distiller first to build the fonts table before i could print to it.

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
Steven Wright

 

[guymason]

Hi Steven

Thanks for replying.
"I had to run distiller first to build the fonts table before i could print to it".
Does the fonts table build its self or is there some configuration needed?

Cheers
Guy

 

[Murgle]

It should automatically do this when you initiate the program - it may take some time to compile the table the first time.

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
Steven Wright

 

[guymason]

Great, thanks.
However I've installed Distiller 4 instead, this works fine.
I'll get by using this for now and look in to why 5 doesn't work, when I have time.
Thankyou for your help

gm

 

[jaymaechtlen]

Remember to update from 5.0 to 5.0.5
That minor-looking revision held a lot of major fixes.