64 Bit Applications Print to PDF but 32 Bit Applications do not

Vista Home Premium x64. All updates installed. SP1 is installed.
Acrobat 8.1.2 as a part of CS3.
Printer Port is set to Documents/*.pdf
Printing fails with Spool print docs or Print directly to Printer selected.
All 64 Bit Applications work.
All 32 Bit Applications fail while 'spooling' according to the Print
Spooler. Printing documents cannot be paused or deleted.
The acrotray.exe and the application from which you are printing must be
killed by Task Manager. And a reboot is necessary to clear the print cue.
The Microsoft Hotfix KB930627cannot be applied due to SP1 having released a
newer version of GDI32.dll.
All applications can successfully print to any other printer on the network.
The Message "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not
activated." This is not the case. Acrobat is activated.
A repair installation has been done.
Hopefully this is enough information for someone to advise me.
I see many instances of users complaing since late last year. Is there a
solution to this problem yet?
Rikk

This problem is now corrected with a simple setting change that is installed incorrectly by default. Rikk <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > Vista Home Premium x64. All updates installed. SP1 is installed. > Acrobat 8.1.2 as a part of CS3. > Printer Port is set to Documents/*.pdf > Printing fails with Spool print docs or Print directly to Printer > selected. > > All 64 Bit Applications work. > All 32 Bit Applications fail while 'spooling' according to the Print > Spooler. Printing documents cannot be paused or deleted. > The acrotray.exe and the application from which you are printing must be > killed by Task Manager. And a reboot is necessary to clear the print cue. > > The Microsoft Hotfix KB930627cannot be applied due to SP1 having released > a > newer version of GDI32.dll. > > All applications can successfully print to any other printer on the > network. > > The Message "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat is not > activated." This is not the case. Acrobat is activated. > > A repair installation has been done. > > Hopefully this is enough information for someone to advise me. > > I see many instances of users complaing since late last year. Is there a > solution to this problem yet? > > Rikk >

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