PS to PDF (Distiller) Error

[John Pilla]

Thanks, after trying everything else, that worked! 

(Short of PDFing ea book file, and putting it all back together, 
which worked in the short time.) 

I used our Corporate required TechDoc printer driver, 
but changed the file extension to .prn instead of the default .ps 
and it worked just as it should. 
Great! 
............................................................ 
~ John ~ 
Sr. Learning Specialist, Educational Services 
MRO Software (An IBM Company) 
Phn: +1.781.280.2003, Fax: +1.781.280.2201 
John.Pilla at us.ibm.com 
............................................................ 
Maximo 5 Certified, Maximo 6 Certified EAM 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Maximo V6 ITSM 
Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management 
.................................................................... 




Hi John, 

not sure if you found resolution yet, but I had the same problem.  I even 
created a very basic word doc with nothing in it but the text "hello", 
just to rule out formatting problems.  Then I stumbled on to an article 
that said that if Acrobat is installed correctly you can skip the 
Distiller step and just print right to pdf by selecting 'PDF Writer' as 
the printer.  That didn't work for me but it led me to this: 

1. Print document to file - select 'Adobe PDF' as the printer, and use a 
.prn extension - not .ps 
2. Distill the .prn file to .pdf 

This worked for me.  I'm using Acrobat 7 Professional.  BTW, this worked 
both manually and also in VB.net code.  Hope this helps! 

-Carol 

Carol Jeffries
Freddie Mac
Market Risk Oversight
PHO IV - 3/3607B
571/382-3735