Envy 4500 won't print pdf files

My new printer HPEnvy 4500 works fine and I'm really pleased with it, except that I cannot print pdf files.
I'm running Windows Vista and have Adobe 11 so have run a repair on Adobe to see if that helps- no joy. Even if I try onepage at a time it might start after a fewminutes but thenonly prints about a quarterof thepage and then stops. It also seems to feeze my entire computer - none of theprograms respond well whilst the document is in the print queue. There are no error messages. I did not have problems with my old Photosmart C5180 printing off the same documents from the same computer (now thrown out)
Please,please can anyone help as these are important documents that I need to print off.
Thank you
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OK, so I managed to fix this myself! The problem seems to be with Adobe Reader. I had upgraded from V9 to the latest version and there appears to be a whole lot of problems with thel atest version. I tried downgrading to V10 but the problem still occurred (even turning off the enhanced saftey mode as suggested by Adobe). Sine V9 is no longer available for download I was stuck in a vicious circle. In the end I gave up on Adobe altogether and uninstalled it completley. I have now downloaded Nitro pdf (free) and everything is working as it should. Finally able to print pdf documents!

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