Acrobat intermittently fails to print PDF from itself!

This has happened multiple times today. When printing a single page PDF from a multiple page Acrobat document the program has been hanging when it needs to ask for a file name. Failure is intermettent and cannot be duplicated by happens often and requires a computer re-boot to fix.

And if you are just using it to make a 1-page PDF...don't do it that way! Use Extract Pages or other techniques. Printing PDF to PDF is not recommended.

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The publisher file I am hoping to convert to pdf is a 21 page panorama article. It contains lots of images and a variety of font types.
I do not know other alternatives for solving this issue.
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It seems to be that Adobe Acrobat virtual printer is not properly installed on your PC or you are not selecting Adobe PDF printer to print PDF document. Checkout the below screen shot to see proper printer.
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Print pdf from ValueLine

Ver 11 says plug-in doesn't work; Ver 10 worked fine
Further information: tried to print pdf from this site; error message says can't do plug-in. Just downloaded fresh Ver. 11 today and accepted conditions. Help, please!

I'm using Win.7.1, trying to download Acrobat Reader 11, reaching it from
AOL 9.7 . I can't download online pdfs from multiple on-line resources
(e.g., ValueLine and your own Adobe site). After I've de-installed the Reader
11 and started fresh, here's what I see: The installation file appears in
my AOL download file. My Norton Internet Security says its safe, and I
double click on it. (I never get to the warning dialog - presumably because
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I have installed Lion and have problems to print PDF from prewiev. When trying to print Prewiev locks. Anyone out there with the same problem?

Hello David and Nicole
I just installed Lion on my iMac, which was purchased in 2007, and I cannot print from Preview; it keeps locking up and not responding. So, I have to force quit Preview. I have been sending error reports to Apple. I suggest everyone who has this problem, send error reports!
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In WORD (Sorry I don't have Autocad), can you go to the FILE>Print and print to the Adobe PDF printer with no problem? If not, can you select print-to-file and then open the file in Distiller to complete the conversion? If the latter works, it sounds like you may have disabled AcroTray, a necessary part of the printing process.

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Hi presottom
Please refer ; http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/troubleshoot-pdf-printing-acrobat-reader.html
or
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is there any error message , etc .. ?

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I have a problem with PDFs that do not have fonts properly embedded.
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people there ;-)
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Hi All
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Hi
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Whenever I ask Acrobat to create a PDF from a web page, it crashes halfway through the process. Here is an example from the BBC:-
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The problem I mentioned is peculiar to Acrobat 10 and also to my PC. On a Mac I can create PDF's from webpages normally.
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