Acrobat 7 Pro Suddenly Printing Gibberish

Suddenly, Acrobat 7 Pro prints PDF files created in MS WORD as gibberish. I switched printers and got the same results. The files print properly using READER 9.1. Also, the files display properly on the screen in Acrobat 7.
It appears to be a corrupted plist file, but I don't know which one.
John DeYulia

That's a guaranteed sign of a conflict between the Print Driver for your Printer and the Version of Acrobat you have.
First upgrade to the very latest version of Acrobat you can for the version you have.
Then go to to Printer website and the the very latest Driver they have.
I'll will almost bet a wooden nickel that you have a Hewlett-Packard Printer.
Adobe and Hewlett-Packard have had a known for years love/hate, yin/yang relationship. Every time Adobe would make a small change to Acrobat code. It would bust HP's Print Driver code. Usually it showed up as diagonal lines from one corner to the other. The only work around is Print as image. (looks like an old time TV that has the Horizontal hold out of adjustment.) as of Lat through Acrobat 8 and 9 they've buried the hatchet apparently.

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