ADOBE 8.0 - ADOBE PRINT IS SET AS DEFAULT PRINTER

Hello,
When I convert a Word document to pdf (File/Print select Adobe PDF) in Acrobat 8 (Pro or Standard) the next time I go to print a Word document it prints with the Adobe PDF printer and not my default printer. This was not an issue in Acrobat 7.0. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks,
Tina

Visit this sub-forum of the Acrobat U2U Forums:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/printing_%26_prepress
Be well...

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Comment by moderator: An english overview of this thread is given in an answer to this posting.
Sehr geehrter Herr Hoelters,
wir möchten gerne GTS on System i fahren. Für fast alle Module aus GTS
braucht man die JAVA Instanz. Das soweit ist wohl kein Problem.
Für die Adobe Printing Services brauchen wir die Java Instanz auch.
Nun gibt es wie unten aus dem Buch zitiert non supported Platforms.
Im Hinweis Hinweis 925741 wird eine Lösung mit einem zusätzlichen
Applikationsserver empfohlen.
Dadurch stellt sich raus, das wir doch einen zusätzlichen Windows
Server für diese ADS benötigen.
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Freigaben Adobe Document Services Datenbank-Plattformen DB2/400...
freigeg.
Datenbankversion Betriebssystemversion Datum Status
DB2/400 V5R3 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 05.12.2005 Freigegeben
DB2/400 V5R4 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 14.02.2006 Freigegeben
Bedeutet das jetzt das ich die ADS nicht ohne Windows Server nutzen
kann ?
mit freundlichen Grüßen
Carsten Schulz
Erstens:
Book: Global Trade Services Using SAP® GTS 7.0
Page 13
Depending on our process, it can be necessary to set up the following
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SAP NetWeaver Java Stack
All print forms in SAP GTS are available in Adobe print technology. If
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Printing documents and forms can be necessary in the following areas:
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Zweitens:
Book: SAP NetWeaver 2004s SR1 Java: IBM eServer iSeries
2.4 Running Adobe Document Services on Non-Supported Platforms
Adobe document services (ADS) are currently not supported to run
natively on all platforms supported by
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Procedure
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Drittens:
Hinweis 925741 - Adobe Doc. Services (ADS) auf nicht unterstützt.
Plattformen
Hinweis zu IBM iSeries
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Message was edited by:
Carsten Schulz
Message was edited by:
Carsten Schulz

Hello.
This question and its answer might be interesting for the non german speaking members of this community, too. So I made a short translation of the discussion. Not in every detail but it should be sufficient to get the idea. If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask here. For future discussions I would like to encourage all of you to use english as the forum language. The members of this community are distributed all over the world and using english is the only way to get feedback from most of them.
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Thanks for the reply, and on Thanksgiving no less :-)
I downloaded the Acrobat 9.1 SDK and found 2 documents: pdf_reference.pdf and UD3Elements.pdf. I looked through both of these and found no reference to silent printing. I did a search on the Adobe site and found no exact match for Distiller IAC Guide or Documentation. I found a few results that contained the terms Distiller and IAC but found no reference to silent printing. I did find a reference to a description of an example that somehow involved silent printing, but when I tried to open it Adobe Reader told me that the Adobe pdf file was missing or corrupt.
I am not an acrobat expert nor do I want to or have any reason to be. I have 1 small project that needs to do 1 thing with creating pdf documents and it has been unneccessarily complicated to find an answer to such a straightforward problem, especially when so many other people seem to be confused about the same thing. I can write code that modifies the registry. If someone could just tell me what the 2 registry values are and what they need to be set to or at least a link to this document that explains it, I would greatly appreciate it.

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