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"Adobe Generic PostScript Driver" = ADIST5.PPD, Acrobat Distiller You should now have a new printer which prints to a postscript file.ĬlassGUID=

and browse to this inf and "install anyway" when prompted. Place ADIST5.PPD in the same directory as this. You will need to get ADIST5.PPD from Adobe, currently available at: Generic_Adobe_PostScript.inf - inf install for generic PostScript output using Adobe ADIST5.PPD

Hope this helps a few people, certainly works for me on ia64 Win7. Save as Generic_Adobe_PostScript.inf, usage instructions are in the comments at the top of the file. Having failed to find one anywhere that simply created a printer instance, I put the following together. Having googled around the same problem, it looks like there are a few people out there who, like me, do want to manually create such a driver instance to get clean postscript output to file.īesides the PPD file downloadable from the link in the preceding posts, the only thing needed is a suitable INF file. User needs to acquire or purchase any of these tools and install the software at their end. There are many other commercial and free tools available.  User acquires a suitable Postscript-to-PDF converter - User can acquire any third party Postscript to PDF converter tool and use the tool for generating the PDF output from the postscript file.Įxamples are Distiller from Acrobat Professional (commercial and can be acquired from ) or Ghostscript (free and can be acquired from ). Output will vary depending on the selected postscript driver. c:/temp/Adobe)Īdobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer - English ( )Ī postscript printer (on the network or attached to the machine) can also be used as a postscript driver. In case of installing this driver, the following two files need to be downloaded from this location:Īfter downloading this file, extract the *.PPD files to any location (e.g.  User acquires a suitable Postscript driver - User can install any suitable postscript driverĪn example is Adobe Universal Postscript Driver for Windows (Acrobat Distiller PostScript Printer driver) that can be downloaded and installed from ). The use-model of PDF export is as follows. The following diagram shows the architecture of PDF Export This section presents the information about a shareware utility built with TCL/Tk which lets you exporting PDF from Capture design.Ĭapture provides the facility of exporting the design to PDF, subject to the availability of Postscript (PS) driver and Postscript-to-PDF converter software on user’s machine.

Sometimes, you are interested in exporting the PDF for Capture designs. The intention is to print Orcad Capture designs (from Cadence) into pdf files.