There is no such beast as an
Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver. What is posted on Adobe's website is something called the
Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer. This package is a 16-bit installer that has two functions:
For ancient versions of Windows (Windows'9x, Me, and NT3.x), this package installs the old
AdobePS driver and associates same with a PPD of the user's choice to create a PostScript printer driver instance based on
AdobePS.
For Windows 2000 and 32-bit versions of Windows XP, this package simply associates a user-designated PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file representing a particular printer model with the PostScript driver that is part of Windows 2000 and XP.
This installer cannot be used on any 64-bit version of Windows nor on the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista or Windows 7. There are no plans whatsoever to update this installer.
Currently, Adobe advises users to create new PostScript printer driver instances under Windows using the
Add Printer wizard.
Note that the
Generic PostScript Driver is really based on a very generic PPD file based on older PostScript versions and with very few options that would be useful for a PostScript device (especially distilling PostScript into PDF).
Perhaps if the original poster,
lostmind, could give us the use case that they are pursuing, we could give some more specific advice.
- Dov