pdf printer required

Tim W wrote recently in microsoft.public.windowsme.general, to which I
am responding to by adding microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion because
it's equally applicable to Tim's question and has the advantage of being
read by people that are actually knowledgeble in technical details
relating to win-9x/me and who do more than just gab or treat a newsgroup
as a social gathering site as to those that read
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion:

I just downgraded from XP to keep an old laptop in use after it was
driven slower and slower by anti virus programs. The machine is
really flying again - feels like new - but the only problem I have
is there is no driver available for the printer I have attached to
the desktop in the study. No problem I think, if I need to do
occasional printing I will just make a pdf and print that. I can't
remember what was agood pdf printer program for Win98 (actually Me
in my case) so can anyone recommend? IIRC pdfs are a bit like old
metafiles and can have text, vector graphics and raster images in
them and I need one which handles them all. A pdf maker which
converts a CAD file to a raster for instance is going to be no
use.

Thanks,
Tim W

You might want to look for Adobe Acrobat PDF Distiller. It will give
you the ability to print to a pdf file by virture of adding another
option to your printer list. So any time you print a document, you can
select the PDF Distiller instead of your default printer as necessary.

You normally had to buy PDF distiller (at least you had to years ago).
Perhaps the option of printing to a pdf file is now built-into Windows
Vista or Seven (I don't know).

If you can't find a win-98 compatible program to do this (adobe pdf
distiller or other) then I can upload my copy of Adobe PDF distiller 4
somewhere and make it available for you to download. Just let me know
if you want it.

In message , 98 Guy writes:
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I just downgraded from XP to keep an old laptop in use after it was
driven slower and slower by anti virus programs. The machine is
really flying again - feels like new - but the only problem I have
is there is no driver available for the printer I have attached to
the desktop in the study. No problem I think, if I need to do
occasional printing I will just make a pdf and print that. I can't
remember what was agood pdf printer program for Win98 (actually Me
in my case) so can anyone recommend? IIRC pdfs are a bit like old
metafiles and can have text, vector graphics and raster images in
them and I need one which handles them all. A pdf maker which
converts a CAD file to a raster for instance is going to be no
use.

Thanks,
Tim W

You might want to look for Adobe Acrobat PDF Distiller. It will give
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You normally had to buy PDF distiller (at least you had to years ago).
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IIRR, pdf995 works fine under '9x; I don't know about the rastering
question, but I've not had any problems with it.
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