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Help setting Adobe PDF Printer Application to PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2

Hi there experts.

I am hoping that someone will know how to change the Application that the Adobe PDF printer uses from Acrobat PDFMaker 9.0 for Word to PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2

System is Windows XP and Adobe Acrobat is version 9.0

Please provide step by step process.

Thanks!

ACTFORMS

I am not sure I understand. Are you talking about the Adobe PDF virtual printer driver? When you go to control panel and select printers, if you have Acrobat installed, you will see a driver for Adobe PDF, is this the "Adobe PDF Printer" you are talking about? Adobe Acrobat 9 uses this driver to create a pdf through the standard "print" interface. This is a virtual printer since there is no physical printer that this driver "runs". PScript5.dll is the MS "Vanilla" Postscript printer driver for XP. Are you trying to print a word document to a postscript file? PScript5.dll must be installed to be active. When you print to whatever printer is associated with this postscript driver (PScript5.dll), you will get an option to "print to file". Is this what you are trying to do? If so, the problem is not changing which application but rather which printer driver to print to.

To install the PScript5.dll as a virtual printer, open the `Printers` settings folder, and click `Add Printer`. Select a local printer; since it is virtual, select the FILE: port. Specify `Generic` as manufacturer, click "have disk" and then you can choose the PScript5.dll driver from wherever you have the file stored. Once this driver is installed to this "virtual printer" (again this is virtual since there is no physical printer) you can open the word doc, select print, choose this generic printer from the list, and select the location you want the file printed to. I hope I am answering what you are "askin"!!

r_johnston

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ACTFORMS, I am indeed referring to the virtual printer file for creating Adobe PDFs.

One of my coworkers is having issues posting files to our intranet site that lists files found in a network folder. The major difference that I have found between the files is the PS that is used. The use of the PScript5.dll results in no issues with having the names on the intranet site show up correctly...the use of the standard Acrobat PDFMaker 9.0 for Word results in duplicate names displaying on the website...even thought the metafile naming is correct and the web path displays correctly when opening the document from the website...

We create PDFs from AutoCAD files and MSO Word files.

I will try the suggestion that you provided above on my computer and see what happens. Will this still create a .pdf?

r_johnston

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Update:

I tried to make a virtual printer and locate the PScript5.dll file...but when I get to the part where I click "Have Disk..." the only file type that is acceptable is .inf

I found the PScript5.dll file on my computer (see attached jpeg for locations) but I am not able to select it due to the restrictions on file type noted above.

PScript5.dll-Search.jpg

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Update: The file posted just fine and still had the PScript5.dll driver listed as the Application used to generate the file!