Has there been ANY changes to the installed printers on this machine? Is Pagemaker 7 currently on this machine and can it also be opened successfully? you mentioned 2017) and can it be opened successfully on its own? Is Acrobat Distiller on this machine now? (which version. My guess is there has been a change in installed printer drivers, perhaps your friend deleted the driver that Distiller was using. Has your friend been using PM and Acrobat successfully on this same Windows 7 system up until recently? Can you post a screen shot of his list of printers? Is his computer connected to a PostScript printer? Did he change printers recently? If he still has the PS Printer, he should switch to that. If Distiller is not in his Applications folder, try doing a search of his hard drive to see if it got moved into another folder. Open the Distiller > Choose the appropriate joboptionsĪcrobat Distiller is a separate application from Adobe Acrobat and it still comes with Adobe Acrobat, although using it is considered archaic these days because there are newer, better methods of making a PDF.When Acrobat 2 came out, the workflow changed: Click the checkbox for "Print to File" to create a PostScript file.I started with PageMaker before Acrobat was available in those days, the workflow was: Hi no one else has answered this after four days, I'll give it a try. I'm working from memory here, as I haven't used PageMaker for many years, but I used it from v. I need to find a path in locating to repair what is there, or to get a fresh 5.0 or 7.0 download with PS and DistĬan anyone assist?. He's a dear old friend and upgrades to modern indesign are pretty much out of the question now.Īnd the almost 1000 page book, orphan page settings, margins, margin notes, etc become lost or, where can I get 5.0 Postscript and Distiller to get him rolling? to reinstall/repair itself without asking for keys, or able to locate the keys on his machine before doing reinstall Is there a way, with the files existing in a normal install, currently on his machine Searching Adobe forums, links to download acrobat 5.0 are all removed/brokenĪnd many spam sites with virus downloads exist I believe the acrobat 5.0 with distiller was the operational path and adobe2017 may not have been successful, as it seems the process PM uses to hit first Postscript then Distiller may or may not be the same. I and looking at the many adobe installs and tries in 2017 can not locateĪs on my tests, it appears Pagemaker looks FIRST for postscript install, then jumps to distiller I could assume, ok, so let's reinstall acrobat 5.0(having distiller) or adobe2017(having distiller in it's folders) I could assume that something disconnected or some file modified. On his machine adobe acrobat 5.0 was installed pre 2017 and adobe 2017 was installed in 2017 On his Windows 7 postscript connection, possibly distiller as well seems to have vanished. Pagemaker was then looking for Distiller installation in order to complete the PDF process When I emmulated on another computer, if I got past that, (on a windows 10) It says Postscript file must be installed. In the past 2 weeks, something changed and he no longer can print PDF Occassionally, a typo or adjustment is requested for a reprintĪh, and to add, he has Windows 7 with little likelyhood of changing. Exactly as he wanted, for years, and would send the pdf to his printer. They would click the PDF icon and viola, the very complexly formatted pages went to pdf. I have an older collegue, that authored a book many years ago in Pagemaker.