Peter et al:

Not sure I understand the desire to use Distiller
Assistant. It seems to me to be a "watchdog" app
that determines when Distiller is needed. Not
much else?

Since you are on a network, how about this one:

Set up a machine with the Distiller loaded and
running all the time. The machine doesn't need to
be a file server, just to have drive mappings to
the watched directories. Make the watched
directory a network directory (or directories) and
direct the users to print PostScript files to the
watched directory.

Distiller will then work in the "background",
distilling files as they are printed. No need for
Distiller Assistant; ergo, no need to write files
to the local hard drives.

I have used a variation on this theme to work with
NT 3.51 (where Distiller Assistant doesn't work
real well?).

It seems to me that the nice people at the Adobe
office in NY had a similar system for creating and
posting documents to their web site. I think they
defined a specific printer as a PostScript print
driver directed to a watched directory.

HTH

Regards,

Tom

<<Tom.Tomasovic@na.nwmarkets.com>>

No corporate opinions expressed here.


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Subject: DistAsst: can its workfile go elsewhere? [Ref:C267569]
Author: INTERNET acrobat@blueworld.com at Multimessage
Date: 5/15/97 2:41 PM


We've looked at other approaches that avoid DistAsst, but prefer to use it if
possible.