Well, I've still not been able to improve my PMD to PDF conversion status. Despite being assured by the Add Printer robot that there's already a particular print driver installed, it will even install another, I'm guessing, updated one if I like. And then just a little later I'm told by my own damn turncoat computer that I really don't have a PS print driver installed after all, and then snarkily "Please install one." Harrumph!!
I clicked the link for Dov's response to my "issue" hoping there'd be a solution, but nope. I just cannot get my head around the fact that for us folk running Win 7 on a 64-bit PC there's just no way to convert PMDs to PDFs because there's just not a PS driver up to the job? Aw, c'mon!
What about Xerox's "Global" print driver the UNIV_5.675.6.0_PS_x64_Driver? I am sure I've iinstalled that at some point. Shouldn't it have satisfied my PS need? sigh I just don't get it!
No, there is no built-in driver in Windows 7 that is going to properly create PostScript from your applications to create PDF via an ancient version of Distiller that might remain on your system. And
no, using a physical printer driver and associated PPD to create PostScript will normally
not produce PostScript that is appropriate for distillation. Forget about the Xerox so-called “universal driver” – it produces PostScript appropriate for physical Xerox printers (and maybe a few others).
I assume that on your Windows 7 system, you have a copy of PageMaker 7. Uninstall whatever remaining dregs of ancient Acrobat versions you have on your system. License a copy of Acrobat DC and that will install the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance as well a modern copy of Acrobat and Distiller. From PageMaker print to Adobe PDF and that will easily produce PDF for you.
That having been said, you may be “
one of the remaining diehard PageMaker 7.0 users worldwide” but at this point, you have had
over twenty years notice that PageMaker was a dead product. Even current versions of InDesign will no longer open PageMaker 7.x files anymore. You would be very well advised to find someone with an InDesign CS6-equipped system to open your remaining PageMaker files and convert them
now before you end up with a situation in which your PageMaker files are totally unusable.
- Dov