PDF and printer printing

I need to print to PDF and then also print a hard copy. I am using a program called PDF4U for my PDF creation. In PD I setup two virtual printers, "MakePDF" and "LOCAL". "MakePDF" uses the PDF4U print driver. "LOCAL" uses a HP 2300PS driver and reprints to a 2300 printer connected to LPT1. If I print to "MakePDF" it works perfectly...it prompts me for a filename and location and I can save the PDF file normally. If I print to "LOCAL" it works normally...printing to my local printer.

Now I create a third virtual printer called "PDFandLOCAL". This uses the Adobe Univeral PS driver and reprints to both "MakePDF" and "LOCAL". This prints fine to LOCAL but no PDF is generated.

Is there anyway to simply link two printers together without using a driver? Has any more progress been made on setting up a virtual printer using multiple drivers?

Jonas,

Unfortunately most of the PDF drivers require some user intervention when you print which isn't going to work from the Print Distributor service.

There are a couple of ways around this, the first is to use Acrobat Distiller to convert the PostScript to PDF using the Distiller action.

The second is to use GhostScript, there is a brief article on how to configure this at http://www.printdistributor.com/content/faq-using-pd-with-gs

Actually the user intervention works fine. When I print to the virtual printer called "MakePDF" I get prompted for a filename and directory where the PDF file will be placed. This works as intended. However, what I want is to have a hardcopy printed after...or during...this step. I think what is happening is that the third virtual printer, which is supposed to link the other two virtual printers, is using a print driver that is not compatible with one of the two. That is why I just want to link the two virtual printers and use the drivers setup with them.

Thats the crux of the problem, if MakePDF asks you where to save the document then the file isn't arriving at our port monitor so we can't do anything with it.