About adobe PDF

hello everyone,
This morning I downloaded Adobe Acrobat XI before I utilsais pdf creator.
my question is: I wanted to know if it was possible with Adobe PDF printer, print, and merge PDF as with PDF creator.
thank you for your help
jonathan

It is all described (in detail) in Acrobat's Help.
That is up to you to read and study as most times most folks don't want to cut and paste volumes of information that is readily available in the application Help.
Start here:
Acrobat Help | Acrobat Learn & Support
Be well...

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Good Morning All,
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http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf
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In some versions of Acrobat, there are two printers created. If you have one named "Distiller" could you try printing to that one?
You also could reset the printing preferences stored by Firefox.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste '''printer''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Right-click '''print.print_printer''' and choose Reset. You can reset your Adobe PDF printer-specific settings as well, which will take many clicks....
Any luck?

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