Re: Printing to the Acrobat PDFWriter

PDFWriter came with Acrobat 5.0. I use it all the time to create PDF files
that work fine.

However, your comments about the PDFWriter being outdated gave me pause to
think. I also had Distiller that came with Acrobat 5. Unfortunately,
Distiller has never worked on my XP computers. So I tried running my
application on a Win Me system that had both PDFWriter and Distiller
installed. The VB.Net application printed fine using Distiller, but
produced an error when trying to print using PDFWriter (Other programs print
fine to the PDFWriter on this computer).

I suppose all this indicates that I should break down and spend the money to
upgrade my Adobe Acrobat to the newest version.

"SharpCoderMP" <csharp_mp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O70MDWnnFHA.2472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> does this pdf writer comes from adobe? or is third party thing?
>
> i'm not sure but i think adobe discontinued long time ago their pdf writer
> so probably any version of it won't be compatibile with current version of
> postscript that windows produces.
>
> William LaMartin wrote:
>> I have a vb.net win form where I want to output some text to a printer.
>> Everything works fine when printing to my laser or inkjet printers.
>> However
>> when I print to the Acrobat PDFWriter printer driver, I get correct
>> formatting but the text is gibberish.
>>
>> I am using ev.Graphics.DrawString(line, printFont, Brushes.Black,
>> leftMargin, yPos, New StringFormat) , where line is the text that I wish
>> to
>> print on each line, to print the text.
>>
>> The DrawLine method, however produces true results for drawing lines.
>> Also
>> printing a picture from inside the program using graphics.DrawImage
>> prints
>> correctly using the Acrobat print driver.
>>
>> Is there some setup of the printdocument that should be done if printing
>> to
>> the Acrobat print driver? Has anyone successfully printed a printdocument
>> containing text to the Acrobat PDFWriter?
>>
>> Note: I do not want to create a report in Crystal Reports and then
>> export it to a PDF document. I want to actually print straight from my
>> program to the Acrobat PDFWriter (which I have installed) just like I
>> would to my laser printer. I can do this--I just get garbled text.
>>

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