Adobe 8 distiller(pdf) not producing a PDF from Postscript

[penahill]

I have been searching for a while with no luck. I have a VB6 program that creates some prn files that needs to placed into 1 PDF. The VB6 program creates a postscript(.ps) file and then used the FileToPDF method to run it. When this VB6 program was developed we were using Adobe 5 and it worked fine. It is still working but we can no longer load Adobe 5 on new systems due to not having the CD. Adobe 8 was the replacement and for some reason the script will not produce a PDF. Below is the .ps file created and ran on Adobe PDF(aka distiller).

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/prun { /mysave save def
dup = flush
RunFile
clear cleardictstack
mysave restore
} def

(C:/HQ/Batch/Schematic.prn) prun
(C:/HQ/Batch/Blue Print.prn) prun
(C:/HQ/Batch/Merchant List.prn) prun
(C:/HQ/Batch/Fixture List.prn) prun

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This is the output in the log file produced by the Adobe PDF when called by the VB6 program using FileToPDF method.

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C:/HQ/Batch/Schematic.prn
C:/HQ/Batch/Blue Print.prn
C:/HQ/Batch/Merchant List.prn
C:/HQ/Batch/Fixture List.prn
%%[ Warning: Empty job. No PDF file produced. ] %%

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When theses files are used within Adobe 8 to create a PDF it produces the PDF with no problem. In my efforts I have changed the FileToPDF to FileToPDF2 thinking it was a security issue being enforced by Adobe 8. I also changed from Pdfdistiller object to ACRODISTXLib.PdfDistiller6. This enabled me to use the FileToPDF2 method. I hope I explained what is happening well enough and I need to find a solution that can done in VB6.

Thanks for taking your valuable time in reading this thread and any help would be appreciated.

penahill

 

[PatrickIRL]

Hi, you may have a better hope in forum280, postscript.

Patrick