Print PDF to same folder as VW file??

[mmoriarty]

I always print pdf's of my sheet layers and up until the other day I would get a dialog box and could give the pdf a different file name and browse to the location I wanted the pdf saved to. Now, I get the same dialog box but pdf ends up on my C drive and the name is the same as the VW file with a .pdf extension instead of the .vwx

This is a VW thing. . .all my other applications still print pdf's like always. I just upgraded to SP3 this morning hoping that would fix the problem but no luck.

Has anyone else had this happen and is there fix?

I still can make a pdf but now it requires a few extra steps (finding the file on the C drive, renaming and moving to the correct folder.) So, I guess its not a huge problem but it sure slows things down.

[mmoriarty]

I think the problem with the Adobe PDF Printer is somehow related to an XP update but I don't know why it only affected VW and not my other applications. I have found a solution though. This is a 3rd party PDF printer. The link is:

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

This is a free PDF printer. It's not as flexible as the Adobe PDF Printer but its FREE and it works.

[brudgers]

Are you printing pdf's or exporting them?

[Jeffrey W Ouellette]

mmoriarty,

What version of VW are you using? And what platform are you on? VW2008 Design Series products for both Mac and Windows have PDF export built in. There should not be a need to interact with any system PDF writers/printers.

[mmoriarty]

I'm using VW 2008 sp3, Spotlight, Windows XP.

The problem with exporting a pdf from VW is that when its opened in Illustrator it does not retain the font information (fonts are substituted and the original font name is not retained anywhere so you can't even replace the substituted fonts with the correct ones.) This also happens with the 3rd party pdf driver I referenced in a previous post.

I realize this doesn't seem like a big problem but the graphics people use the pdf output frequently (using Illustrator on a Mac)and it drives them crazy trying to track down the correct fonts or having to entirely recreate the text.

Its not worth pursuing. I was just hoping someone had run into this before and had a simple fix.