Adobe Indesign 2021/Presets/PPDs/ADPDF9.PPD still does not show up when trying to print to post scri

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July 5, 2021
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Last week i was able to make postcript files

Then monday morning the options for ADPDF9.PPD dissappeared

Tried unistalling and reinstalling but no change

Deleted the PPDs file and created a new one but still no joy. Below is the where i placed it:

Adobe Indesign 2021/Presets/PPDs/ADPDF9.PPD

Anybody have any ideas as google had no other options than putting the 'ADPDF9.PPD' in Presets which is what i have, screen grab below. Or am i being an idiot and missing something very obvious.

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defaultlvtrfykp6t68

Participant

Hi default0u1tyen7szor,

Did you ever find a solution for this problem? I am having the exact same issue. Everything was wotking fine in July 2021 but in September 2021 the ADPDF9.PPD options have disappeared.

Thanks,

Laura

jackywong78

Participant

I have the same issue as well, need the solutions please. Thank you

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

Like Bob, I'm curious why you want to keep asking to do this, when you know it won't work, and why do you feel you need to?

I'm going on the assumption that this is reapproaching the same question you asked about two days ago, Unable to customize page options while printing as a PostScript file | macOS.

If it is, your best course of action is still to get a PDF of your book by directly creating the PDF out of InDesign. It is not by trying to do what you want to do. Your "solution" you keep trying is not a good solution. I can't put it more simply: it's not going to work.

If you have some other reason why you need to create a fictitious Postscript printer, please let us know what you do and why you need to do that so we can help you get a better solution.

You've previously let us know that you're using a Mac. There may be different solutions, depending on what version of MacOS and InDesign you're using. So please let us know that information. Also, if you let us know what print devices you have, and what output device you're tying to get to by using a fictitious Postscript printer, it will greatly assist us in helping you.

There are lots of sharp folks around here willing to lend a hand. But we need more information from you to help us help you. And between you and me, we don't need any more information to know what you're doing is not going to work.

I'm trying to help. Really.

Randy

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default0u1tyen7szorAuthor

Participant

Due to the client we work for has distiler print settings to use. I need to create a post script file. For the last few months Indesign 2021 was allowing me to do this until this morning.

This is the first time i have asked this question as i have always been able to sort the problem by creating that folder and putting the PPD file into it.

After numerous attempts it still does not appear. Device independant is not helpful as i cant set the page size.

macOS Big Sur version 11.4 and Adobe Indesign 16.2.1