Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter Shows as Network Printer
Article ID: 131744
Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006
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This article was previously published under Q131744
SYMPTOMS
After you install Adobe Acrobat, the Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter icon in the
Printers folder is unavailable. If you use the right mouse button to click
this icon, Work Offline is selected on the menu that appears.
CAUSE
The Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter prints to a port named "Disk:." This is not a
valid name for a local port in Windows 95. If a port name is not listed in
the [Ports] section of the WIN.INI file, Windows 95 assumes the port is a
network port. Therefore, Windows 95 assumes the PDFWriter is a network
printer. Because this network port does not really exist, the printer is
set to offline.
RESOLUTION
Use any text editor (such as Notepad) to edit the WIN.INI file. Add the
following line to the [Ports] section of the file:
DISK:=
After you add this line, save the WIN.INI file and close it, and then
restart Windows 95.
MORE INFORMATION
The PDFWriter is part of Adobe Acrobat 2.0. It is a utility to convert
PostScript files to a viewable format (Portable Document Format). This
conversion is for cosmetic purposes only; the functionality of the program
is not affected when this symptom occurs.
The third-party product discussed in this article is manufactured by a
vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise,
regarding this product's performance or reliability.
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