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I am not sure that this is a Lotus Wordpro question or an Adobe PDF question..... Basically the adobe pdf addins from Acrobat 9 standard do not get installed in Lotus Wordpro and I am looking for a workaround to call pdfMaker directly.
When I print a wordpro file manually from Wordpro using the "Adobe PDF" printer it seems to use Adobe pdfMaker the same way that Word does and generates a PDF file directly.
When I try to automate a file print using the "Adobe PDF" print driver it generates a postscript file that needs distilling. Does anyone know how to automate the print without the distiller step.
When you perform a File > Print and use the Adobe Printer in Lotus WordPro, MS Word, or any installed application you are sending the file content to Adobe Distiller. A designated Distiller Job Option (default is "Standard") processes the input and outputs the PDF.This is not at all same as use of Adobe PDFMaker as PDFMaker is not a "printer instance/driver" such as are available in the OS printer drivers listing.
Basically PDFMaker pre-processes/packages the Distiller Job Option input in a manner that permits the interactive features (links, bookmarks, etc) or Tagged PDF output.
The PS file you get reflects the use of the OS provided PPD which only provides *.ps.
You could place such *.ps files in a designated folder.
Then, using Distiller, make this folder a "watched folder".
Leave Distiller open. Whenever a *.ps lands in the "watched folder" Distiller will process it out to PDF.
(n.b., there are license restriction associated with this - short blurb is in a Distiller setup dialog - details are in the EULA).
However, as mentioned before, this is [i]not[/i] PDFMaker activitity. That is only possible with the use of supported applications.
To review those applications supported by Adobe PDFMaker and a discussion of why some applications are not supported the
[url=http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfitmatters/2008/12/version_compatibility_of_acrob.php]Version Compatibility of Acrobat PDFMakers[/url] article by Joel Geraci is worth a read.
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