Re: Printers, their drivers, and PDFs

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

The LaserJet 5M and the Acrobat Distiller printer instances indeed
use the same driver. However, the Acrobat Distiller printer instance
uses a driver plug-in file to provide the PDF options tab and provide
an interface to the Distiller. By the way, PS5UI.DLL is NOT a "config
file", but rather, software that controls the user interface of the
driver.

        - Dov (at Seybold)


At 9/10/2002 09:04 AM, David Coverston wrote:
>When I print to my HP 5 printer from FrameMaker 7 on a Win 2K machine, I
>see from the test page report that the driver name is PSCRIPT5.DLL version
>5.02-- the same driver and version that Acrobat distiller uses. The PPD
>files are different, but the config file, PS5UI.DLL is the same. An
>additional file, PSCRIPT.NTF, is used by both the HP and Distiller, but
>the test page reports that the Distiller uses 3 additional files that the
>HP does not use. I only use machine resident fonts, and have permanently
>substituted all missing fonts in my documents.
>
>Another  writer has said that since the HP driver is a Postscript driver,
>the PDF output must be identical to the hard copy. If the PDF is an image
>of the same page the HP produces (since it is the same driver), then is
>there a need to PDF Frame documents before they are printed? The hard copy
>should always match the PDF, since the same driver is producing both,
>right?
>
>Thanks,
>
>David Coverston


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