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Anonymous
September 27, 2012
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Adobe Postscript for Vista

  • September 27, 2012
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Hello

I am trying to download and install the postscript drivers for my vista computer in order to produce invocies in PDF for my small business.  Unfortunately on installation an error box "severe" pops up after hitting the run button after downloading.  Does anyone have any suggestions on why this is happening and how I can rectify this, please.

Many thanks

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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September 27, 2012

All versions of Windows since Windows 2000 come with a PostScript driver, PSCRIPT5.DLL. Adobe does have an installer that is used to associate that built-in Windows driver with user-provided PPD files. That installer does not work with any 64-bit version of Windows or with any version of Windows newer than Windows XP. That installer was originally designed for Windows NT 4 and Windows'9x which did not have a modern PostScript driver. The installer was updated to run with Windows 2000 and XP (32-bit) to ease the transition for PostScript devices for which the manufacturers had not yet provided Windows 2000 and XP-compatible PostScript driver installers (typically a .inf file and a .pdd file with possibly one or more driver plug-ins).

There is no intention by Adobe to update the installer you tried to run for either 64-bit or newer Windows versions.

A PostScript driver by itself isn't what you need to product PDF. You either need a driver that directly produces PDF from your application via the print function or software that provides a PostScript driver interface and a means of converting the generated PostScript into PDF. That is a function of software such as Adobe Acrobat which when installed, creates a PostScript printer driver instance and the appropriate plumbing to feed generated PostScript into the Distiller which creates PDF from PostScript.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Anonymous
September 28, 2012

Hi Dov

Many thanks for this.  However, I already have an application which does the printing – just the postscript printer driver is missing from my vista insallation and winsteng.exe stubbornly refuses to install it.  Any thought's?

Thanks

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
September 28, 2012

What is converting your PostScript to PDF? Acrobat automatically installs such a driver instance. If you have some third party program that does this, it should provide that capability.

The PostScript printer driver is not missing from Vista, simply a manner for you to setup an instance of it and that is the responsibility of the printer manufacturer or in this case, the pseudo-printer (i.e., converter of PostScript to PDF) manufacturer/developer, not Adobe and not Microsoft.

The installer you refer to is obsolete and is not intended for the purpose you propose.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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