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Adobe offers a powerful suite of programs that are helpful to your small business. One of those programs, Adobe Acrobat, provides something called the Adobe PDF Postscriptprinter driver. This Adobe PDF printer driver is used to create PDF documents using the Adobe Acrobat service. In case you have problems with the installation process, here is how to install Adobe’s Print to PDF driver so you can create PDF documents for your business.
How to Install Your Adobe Print to PDF Driver on Windows
First, if you do not have any version of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro installed, you will want to install that program. The Adobe PDF printer driver is usually installed properly as part of the normal installation process of Adobe Acrobat. If for some reason the Adobe PDF printer driver isn’t installed as part of the standard installation process, you can follow these steps to install it manually:
- Click the Start menu, and go to Control Panel.
- From the Control Panel, select Devices and Printers.
- Choose the option to Add a printer.
- From the Add a device window, choose the option to Add a local printer. If that option isn’t available, click The printer that I want isn’t listed from the bottom of the window.
- From the Add Printer window, choose Add a Local Printer or Network printer with Manual Settings.
- You must now choose a printer port, which is shorthand for a connection that exchanges information from your computer directly to a printer. From the drop down menu under the option to Use and existing port, choose Documents*.pdf (Adobe PDF).
- Click Next. Now, you need to find the pdf printer driver inside the Adobe Acrobat folder by selecting the option titled Have Disk, then select the driver from the location on your computer. It will be found at the following directory: C:Program Files (x86)AdobeAcrobat <version>AcrobatXtrasAdobePDF.
- From the AdobePDF folder, choose the file called AdobePDF.inf, and then click Open.
- This should now have populated a series of printer drivers labeled Adobe PDF Converter in the Install the Printer Driver section of the Add Printer window. These are all different versions that correlate with different versions of Windows, so you may have to try a couple different ones by selecting one and clicking Next before finding the one that corresponds to your current Windows variation.
- Once you have selected the right one, Rename it accordingly, and follow any accompanying on-screen directions to finish the installation process. Now, your PDF printer driver should be properly installed.
Printing a PDF With the Adobe PDF Printer Driver on Windows
As a quick recap now that your PDF printer driver is installed, anytime you want to print a PDF, go to File, and select Print. From the Print Window, select the option for Adobe PDF as your printer of choice, and click Print. You will be asked to name the new PDF file and choose the location you want to save it. Once you click Save, your PDF will be ready for you to access.
Troubleshooting Your Adobe PDF Printer Driver on Windows
If for some reason your Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver is not appearing under the AvailablePrinters section of your Control Panel on Windows, try going to the Help window in Acrobat, and select the Repair Installation option. If you see your Adobe PDF printer show up, but still fails to function correctly, you will need to delete the printer, reboot your computer, and try Repair Installation option again.
How to Print to a PDF on a Windows Without the Adobe Driver
As of Windows 10, it is possible to print to a PDF without Adobe or another third-party printer driver. To print using the onboard Windows 10 tools, go to File, then Print and select the option called Microsoft Print to PDF as your printer. Name and save the file at the location you want accordingly, and choose OK.
If this option isn’t available to you, you can install this PDF printer driver manually as well. Repeat the steps above as if you were installing an Adobe printer driver, but this time:
- Select FILE: (Print to File) instead of Documents*.pdf (Adobe PDF).
- From there, click Next. You will be prompted to select a manufacturer, so choose Microsoft, then select Microsoft Print to PDF and hit Next once more.
- You will be prompted to either replace the current driver, or use the driver already installed, so use the one already installed, rename it if you wish, and click Next to finish installing the Microsoft Print to PDF option.
How to Print to a PDF on a Mac OSX Without the Adobe Driver
The Adobe PDF printer driver from Acrobat is not actually available to Mac users. Instead, you can still print to PDF by using the Save As Adobe PDF option.
Simply open a file on any Mac OS application, like Pages, and select the option to Print from the File drop down menu. On the Print window, click PDF, and select the Save as Adobe PDF option. Choose your PDF Settings, name your file along with any other accompanying details, and click Save. Your new PDF should now be ready for you.
As a quick note, according to Adobe, there is a glitch in the latest MacOS Mojave (v.10.14) that creates an error when you try to print a PDF with the Save as Adobe PDF option. To fix it, you will need to launch the Automator program, and select the Third Party Automator Actions option. This will bring up a window where you will be asked to check a box to Enable Automator actions from third parties. By checking that box, the error message should be resolved, and you should be able to print your documents to Adobe PDF.
Installing PDFs With Adobe Products Other Than Acrobat
You might have difficulty creating a PDF if you try to do so using the free Adobe Reader, which does not support the ability to create PDF documents. There is, however, one other way to install a print to PDF driver from another Adobe product other than Acrobat. That is by installing Adobe FrameMaker, which also installs the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver.
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Hi all,
This document is about how to bring dynamic variables into a string in adobe forms layout just like in smartforms.One of the common practices in bringing dynamic variables into adobe forms is using a string variable declaration in the Adobe Interface level and concatenate each and every sentence that contains a dynamic variable into the string. This is done in the Coding part of the Interface. But this method has many disadvantages, One of the main problems with this approach is it’s a nightmare with adjusting the alignment with other fields or sentences in the adobe form, also the spacing will not be proper if the length of the variables differ for different cases.
Also creating a required design in adobe form is also very time consuming so in this tutorial i will explain on how to import a layout to adobe form. Although predefined templates are available in the adobe form, it will not be suitable every time. And my solution may or may not apply to your specific requirements am just explaining one alternative to this common practice. In some cases we rely on converting the design to an image and placing it as background in Adobe Forms, But that approach also has many disadvantages and limitations in some cases.
This a full tutorial from creation of adobe forms to importing the dynamic variables. Those who are interested only in the dynamic variable part go to step 4.
Step by step methods to create an adobe form with dynamic variables along with an external layout.
Step 1.
Create an interface first for the adobe form.
Declare some global datas to be used as dynamic variables in the adobe form. In a real scenario these values will be send to the Adobe Form from the driver ABAP program or the Webdynpro application. I am skipping that part since it is already explained in my previous document about Online Adobe Forms section.
Since this Adobe Form is not called by a driver program I am hard coding the values into these variables.
Save and activate the adobe form interface.
Step 2
Now create an adobe form layout.
Drag and drop the global variables of the interface into the context of our adobe form layout.
Change the Lyout Type To ZZCI Layout.
Step 3:
Now import design from an external file. You need to first convert the design file like .doc file into a .pdf file, this is important because adobe form will not accept any other format design. There are so many third party free softwares are available to convert files to pdf, even online free pdf convertors are available.
To import the pdf file go to Tools->Import->Choose file
Now you can see the imported design layout in the Design View. All the fields are editable. Now we can place our dynamic variables in the layout wherever it is required.
Step 4
Now import the dynamic variables into the layout.
Select the text box you want to add the variable or create a new text window and place it where you want the dynamic variable.
If you want to add the dynamic variable in a position inside a sentence place the cursor on the position of the sentence and right click
Now click on floating field
Now you can see a Text field within a “{ }” symbol has appeared, this is the dynamic variable that will capture the incoming values from the driver program/Webdynpro.
Now go to the binding tab on the right side of the design view in the object pallette.Then click on icon on the right side of the Default Binding field
Since the current floating field doesn’t have any relation with the global variable which are passing the values into. We need to update the binding properties of the current Floating Field. So select on the default binding icon and select the global variable you want to place from the list as shown in the below screen shot.
Select on Update the properties and click ok.This will replace the floating variables default binding properties with the properties of our global variable. And from now on the floating field will act as a container to display the values that we are passing to the global variable.
Now the name of the floating variable will also be replaced by the global variable name. This will help us in identifying the several floating fields accordingly.
Do the same for all the required fields where the dynamic values are required.
Now save and activate the adobe form.
Step 5-Output
Execute the adobe form
Now you can see the dynamic variables coming in the Serial number, Vendor Name, Date and Total Value fields.
Hope this tutorial was helpful.