Access 2003 Bug

[John Hornbuckle]

I'm using Access 2003 Beta, with the refresh installed.

After uninstalling Adobe Acrobat 5 and installing version
6, I can no longer access two reports in a database. I
get an error saying, "The default printer driver isn't
set up correctly." The other reports in the database work
fine.

What appears to be happening is that these two reports
are looking for the old PDF driver, and can't find it.
Apparently Access "remembers" what printer you prefer to
print to for each report. My other reports that use my HP
laser printer don't have this issue.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to point these
two reports to a different printer driver. I'm unable to
open them to change the page setup. Even when trying to
open the reports in design view, I get this error.

Any ideas?

 

[John Hornbuckle]

I tried exporting the report, but Access won't let me do
that--it gives the same error about the default printer.

There HAS to be a way to make Access "forget" what the
printer is supposed to be for these two reports. Some
kind of trick? Utility? Registry hack?

 

[Steven Burn]

Little errr extreme perhaps, but, have you checked the registry keys for
those file's/program settings?, should be able to change the driver, or
atleast, remove the entry in there. (I've never used Access 2003, so if
anyone knows different, please feel free to correct/flame me).

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group CEO
www.it-mate.co.uk

 

[John Hornbuckle]

I've solved (or at least worked around) this issue.

Acrobat 5 calls its "printer" Acrobat PDFWriter. Acrobat
6 calls it Adobe PDF. This was the crux of the problem;
Access was hung up on finding a printer called Acrobat
PDFWriter, which no longer existed. Unfortunately, it
never gives you the option to point it to a different
printer.

To get around this, I renamed the Adobe PDF printer to
the old name of Acrobat PDFWriter, then Access allowed me
into the reports. I then went into the page setup and
pointed Access to my laser printer, exited, changed
Adobe's printer name back to Adobe PDF, went back into
Access, and pointed those to reports to the new Adobe
printer with the new name.

Whew!