Acrobat PDF Printer

I have a user running a WinXp notebook who simply cannot get the Printer PDF to load up...it seems to run on everyone else's...
Thanks in advance for any help...

Need some help to compress efficiently line art in a PDF file
I'm trying to reduce the weight of a PDF containing line art from Illustrator ; I print it from Quark Xpress with specification set up in the Distiller. I don't really know what parameters to use
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Firefox 28 hangs when I try to print to Acrobat PDF printer

Hello all!
I have observed a problem when I try to print a webpage in Firefox v28 using the Acrobat PDF Printer (Acrobat Pro 9.5.5) installed in a Virtual Machine (VMware View 5.2) with Windows 7 64 bits. The printing dialog hangs (no response) after the "Save as" pdf dialog. Then I have to force Firefox to close, and afterward a Acrobat PDF conversion dialogs appears with the progress bar stopped at the middle. I also have to close this afterwards.
The others programs (Office, IE, Notepad...) are able to print through the PDF printer without problems. The problem appeared after the automatic update to Firefox v28, since when I downgrade to Firefox v26 the problem disappears.
I checked a similar configuration in a physical computer (W7 64 bits, Acrobat Pro 9.5.5, Firefox v28), and everything runs good, so I think it is a change that happened in Firefox v28 that has some problem with the VM configuration. I also have tried to change the Firefox profile, reset Firefox and reset the printing settings and reinstall Acrobat. No luck.
I would like to know if somebody know some change in Firefox v28 related with the printing or related to some service or update that can have some problem in the virtual machine.
Any help is welcome!
Thanks!

When you updated, did you reset the printer settings in '''about:config''' under '''print.print_printer'''?

Acrobat PDF Printer Hangs in Windows 8

I am running Windows 8 Enterprise RTM 64-bit on an Intel i7-3770 3rd gen CPU, Z77 chipset. I've found that most PDF printers I have been using on Windows 7 now hang on 8, including the Acrobat X printer (latest version). I have found one free alternative that works fine, but would like to get back to using the Acrobat printer. Will Adobe be releasing an update that addresses the hang?
Above is a screenshot afterr more than ten minutes:

Hello All
I have been struggling with this same problem of Printing to Acrobat PDF driver freezing up not only the print spooler, but also the software I was printing from, on Windows 7 64Bit, using both acrobat 9.4 and Acrobat X with the same freeze, stall lockup result.
I think this is the same problem you are having.
I found many questions about this online but no useful answers, and alot of fingerpointing trying to blame different programs and combinations of software.
The 1 solution, which created a PDF and did not freeze, was to switch of the choice of a saving location in the PDf driver and setting a fixed PDF save location instead of the ASK for location option.
This worked but was a real pain having to move and rename the file each time.
This got me thinking that there was actually nothing wrong with the PDF driver.
The problem seemed to be the user input to save the file to a certain location.
I then experimented and found that if I was fast enough with a file name, that the save to location option did not freeze up when creating the PDF.
By repeatedly trying to print and looking at the print dialog box I noticed that after a count of 5 seconds the Acrobat PDF print driver progress box greyed slightly (Asif loosing focus) and after that happened there was no hope of a successful PDF.
The 5second timer got me thinking about a windows timeout, rather than a PDF option.
PDF Print Freeze Problem Solution:
Windows 7 64 bit (And I assume Windows 8 too) has a default program timeout of 5 seconds after which Windows considers a program to be NOT RESPONDING.
The time during which the PDF printer is waiting for a response from you for a save location, is seen as inactive by Windows and Windows decides that the Print driver has stalled.
Something then changes anough to effect the driver, and once the PDF print driver is allowed to carry on and save the PDF it can't anymore and stalls.
Solution is to edit the HungAppTimout in the Windows Registry, and set it to something like 20000 to 30000 = 20 to 30 seconds.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978614.aspx (Info regarding the Registry Key)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\HungAppTimeout
This then give you 20-30 seconds to select a save location for your PDF.
In my case (Windows 7 64bit) the Registry entry was missing.
I had to create it from scratch and reboot.
If ENTRY IS MISSING:
Goto the folder in the registry
Right Click - NEW - STRING VALUE
Name it exactly as above including CAPS: HungAppTimeout
Set the value to 20000 (For 20 seconds or more if you need it)
Reboot Windows.
After that Printing to PDf with Acrobat works 100%.
Note this option also helped on my Windows XP PC.
I hope this prevents others from struggling as much as I did to fogure this out.
Regards

Reader 9 Acrobat PDF Printer Driver Continuously Installs

Since I have installed Reader 9, the Acrobat PDF Printer Driver Continuously Installs in the background degrading system performance. Does anyone else have this problem? It auto created a System Restore point, so check that. I am running XP with all patches applies.

Hi Mike,
I have exactly the same problem that you describe. At first I thought it might be malicious software that was installing a fake driver, but after running Malware, Spybot and some other programs, I'm still left with the problem. I have a lot of Adobe software installed (Adobe Premiere Elements 7, Adobe Acrobat Pro 8, Adobe Audition 3, Adobe PhotoShop 7 and of course Adobe Reader 9, plus as you indicate Adobe Air and Acrobat.com I'm not sure when my problem started, since I only recognized it when I went to do a system restore. It appears to install the driver about once a minute. This leaves me with about 3 days worth of useless restore points.
The only advice that I have received is to un-install all my Adobe stuff, then check the System Restore, then one by one re-install the packages checking each time what happens in the system restore.
Have you found any solution since your original post?
Dave Freeman
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada

Acrobat PDF Printer STILL freezes when pasting filename into Save dialog

Ref: Acrobat Printer Freezes on Save when CTL+V is used
No change in Acrobat X. Printing system still freezes up entirely when pasting a filename into the Save dialog, when printing to Adobe PDF printer. Most often from Firefix (all versions through 28.0) but from other programs as well (also happens from MS Outlook 2010 32 bit).
Any chance of an update from Adobe?
Acrobat Pro X on Win 7 64 bit. Multiple systems exhibit same behavior.
Same issue occurs in Acrobat XI Standard.
Workaround is possible by manually typing in filename, or renaming, but clearly this should not be happening. If you forget, it requires a lot of steps (or a reboot) to try again.

If you copy text directly from FireFox (or Word, or pretty much any program, other than Notepad), and try to paste into the Save Dialog to save your PDF, guaranteed crash.
HOWEVER, if you paste the text into Notepad first, and then copy it again, you can then paste into the Save dialog no problem. This is why the "test" that the Adobe rep did to recreate the problem was pointless: He managed to re-create the one workaround method that DOES work, instead of actually trying to do things the way that were causing the issue to show up.
The problem appears to be related to any sort of "rich" text. Windows ignores the "rich" information and only keeps the text if you paste into a filename in the system. So Windows handles it just fine, it's Adobe's save dialog that can't handle it. Copied text from Firefox is usually pretty clean (IE is worse), but there must be some formatting remnants in there that are giving Adobe fits (instead of properly ignoring them). It may have something to do with 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Firefox and 64-bit Acrobat all coming together? Copying and pasting between 64-bit and 32-bit programs usually has no issues, but in this case, it does (although the 64/32 bit relation is pure speculation on my end).
But by "washing" your text through Notepad first, it completely strips it down to truly pure plain text, which can then be pasted into Adobe's Save dialog without a crash. This adds an extra step, and should be entirely unnecessary, but it does work. At least until Adobe fixes their program.

Acrobat PDF Printer don´t work

When I choose File->Print->"Adobe PDF Printer" from any application (i.E. "Ai") I get following two windows. The first Window will disappear with 100%, but the second don´t and no file will be created?!!??!??!?
My system: Win7 64 and Adobe CC (Acrobat XI Pro)
Can anyone help me to fix this, please?
Used CS5 a few days before and it does the job.

You will need to manually create using the link tool or if you're lucky
(and the destination URL is spelt out in the text) use Advanced /
Document Processing / Create from URLs option.
The PDF Maker on the Mac does not work the same as Windows ...
Jon

No Acrobat PDF Printer

Hi,
I have OS X 10.5, Adobe Creative Suite 3 with Acrobat Pro 9. I installed CS3, without the Acrobat option as per the advised setup instructions, restarted the Apple, then installed Acrobat Pro 9 and then rebooted. The PDF printer is not available when I try to print from any application on the Apple. It's as if the PDF printer itself hasn't been installed.
Can you advise on how to add the PDF printer in as the installtion procedure doesn't seem to work.
Thanks
Chris

Under the help menu there should be a choice to repair the installation
of Acrobat. This should restore the pdf printer.
Mike

Acrobat PDF Printing Press Issues....

I have a pdf with more than 150 pages in High Resolution, I want to convert it to pdf presss quality, so when I print this High Resolution pdf by going to pdf printer and setting its quality as a press quality, then its simply starts processing and at the end it's giving only lessthan 10-15 pages result.
Actually I want to convert one High Resolution pdf(150 pages) to good but low size pdf(press quality), So please tell me how to do this.
Thanks.

When you start saying small size, you may have to compromise on something. The first thing is to find out why the file is large (not sure how large you consider large in this case). In the PDF Optimizer, there is an audit function to provide information on the memory use in the PDF. Also, the PDF Optimizer is a good way to reduce the file size and retain control of the quality (always work on a copy). When you print to a new PDF, you would lose all bookmarks and such -- that may be an issue. If you have a lot of graphics, you may not be able to reduce the file size without giving up some of the resolution that you seem to want.

Printing to acrobat pdf locks up computer

I have Acrobat 8 with Win XP. Has worked fine in the past, but lately when I try to print a document to Acrobat PDF it jsut locks up my computer and never prints. It seems to stay in the spooler forever. I tried turning off background printing, updating (no updates avail), and doing a repair install. Nothing works.

Hi Steve,
Please try the steps mentioned below in order and see if it helps.
1)Click on \"Start > Control Panel.\" Click on \"Printers and Faxes
2) Delete The Adobe PDF Printer
3) Go to the Print Server properties by Clicking on the file menu.
4) Go to Drivers and delete the Adobe PDF Printer Driver ( Do not delete the Package, remove only the drivers)
5) Now repair the Acrobat installation.
6) This would add the PDF printer again, now try printing.
Also, if it does not add the PDF Printer, try to add it manually using (The below mentioned URL is for 64 bit machine the path Program file X86 would be Program Files for 32 bit)
Acrobat: PDF Printer missing after installation on Windows 64-Bit
Thanks,
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Acrobat X pro pdf printer missing/ puzzle re forum fixes

Licensed Acrobat X pro installed; but no pdf printer.
Attempted workaround
<http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2012/06/04/acrobat-pdf-printer-missing-after-installation- on-windows-64-bit/>
Solution 1 repair --did not work
Solution 2 --Uninstall and reinstall: I installed as part of CS5.5...do I have to unistall entire or just Acrobat?
Solution 3: I am copying below with notes as to what didn't show up
Manually install the PDF Printer
Click Start > Control Panel > Devices and Printers
Select Add a printer
Select Add a local printer
Check Use an existing port and select Documents\*.pdf (Adobe PDF) from the drop down. Click Next
[No such file on 'existing port.' attempted using NITRO pdf which came with this new lenovo machine [but never availbale and not installed --jst recommended, although this file exists < NitroPDF Port: (local port) > which I attempt]
Click the Have Disk… button
Click the Browse… button
Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF
Select AdobePDF.inf from the list if using Acrobat Pro, or AdobePDFstd.inf if using Acrobat Std, then click the OK button
[this files exists]
You will see many Adobe PDF Converters in the list, however count six down from the top and click Next (you may need to try this numerous times to find the correct Converter from the list that works with your version of Windows)
[Attempted six down--no dice].
Name your printer, e.g. Adobe PDF
Follow the rest of the prompts and your PDF printer should now be installed correctly
If you are later prompted for the ADPDF9.PPD file, it can be found in the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF\<OS version> folders.
[Once I hit 'test' print it states < Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Acrotray.exe'.
BUT i'm not using Acrobat 11.0!
Any ideas, o wise ones?
best,
skylar1

Hello All,
I just figured this out--
I installed updates in the Help tab, and the files required, including pdf printer were installed.
Works!
I realize that this is a gen behind in software but I am running legacy large format printers and the newest is not the best in this application.
Hope this helps....
skylar1

Acrobat X Pro - pdf printer

hi
I install on my mac (leopard 10.5.8) Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
but i haven't any pdf printer in Preferences->Printer
how I print with acrobat pdf printer as the same on Acrobat 9 Professional?

The proper method to set up is in the original Document.
I've just tested this out. It use to be that you could use page setup with Acrobat.
Since Acrobat 9 the setup menu has been rendered useless, then in Acrobat X it was totally removed.
I created a test Pdf in Word 2011. I setup for a 4by6" Card (like you print Recipes on).
Then I went to Print Menu and choose PDF > Adobe PDF. Then when I chose location and saved file. Acrobat opened up and the PDF was 4by6" Card format.
Whatever WordProcessor you use set page set up there for A4 create your Document choose adobe PDF, under the PDF button in the Print menu. save your PDF document.
When you open your PDF it will be in the proper format.

Adobe PDF printer freezes on my Win 7 x64 with Acrobat XI

Purchased and running Acrobat XI Standard latest update 11.0.10 on Win 7 Pro x64 (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1), a rather fresh installation (2 months).
Adobe's conversion to PDF doesn't work when using the Adobe PDF printer. The printer initiates normally but the conversion freezes midway and no PDF is created. Same trouble in every application.
From the Firefox Acrobat toolbar I get the error message "an error occured during PDF conversion"
PDF conversions triggered from within Acrobat or Office 2007 toolbar do work sometimes but not always. For example, when converting a DOCX from within Acrobat (create PDF from file) the error message is "could not open...since the file format is not supported or the file is damaged" which is nonsense.
Other Acrobat functionality seems okay.
I already purged and reinstalled Acrobat, same result.
Any ideas please?

I can convert XPS to PDF, and AcroTray.exe is active and running. But the Acrobat PDF Printer still freezes at approx. 10% progress bar, see screenshot.

PDF Printer stopped prompting for output filename

I use the Adobe Acrobat PDF Printer to create PDFs from a variety of applications. My version of Acrobat Pro is 10.1.6. The printer is configured to prompt me for the output filename, but never does. It used to work, but I can't figure out what has changed. I have done a repair of Acrobat, and even went so far to uninstall and reinstall.

Turns out to be an OS problem. I cannot print to my HP printer either! (And this is after rebooting.) Oh well. Off to the Mac forums for assistance. Thanks anyway for those of you who looked at this.

PDF print driver hang when pasting filename from Windows Clipboard

This is consistently reproduceable on my Win 7 64-bit machine, running Acrobat Pro 9.3.1 (Creative Suite 4) and Firefox 3.6.2. There are no version properties available for the Adobe PDF Converter print driver, when I inspect it via Control Panel.
- copy something (i.e., a filename) to the Clipboard
- in Firefox, choose File > Print > choose the Adobe PDF print driver
- I am prompted for the Adobe PDF filename
- when the Save As dialog displays, click in the "Save PDF File As" filename field, and press Ctrl+V.
Firefox and/or the Acrobat PDF print driver are now hung/crashed; you must kill them via Task Manager.
If you restart Firefox and repeat the above steps, but typing in the filename instead of pasting it, everything works fine.

Hi,
First please make sure your Office is up-to-date.
I suspect this may be related to some 3rd-party add-ins or the security software, first please run Outlook in Safe Mode to determine if 3rd-party add-ins are related:
Press Win + R and type “outlook.exe /safe” in the blank box, then press Enter.
If there’s no problem copying and pasting in Safe Mode, disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which add-ins caused this issue.
Please also disable the anti-virus program temporarily to check if this makes a difference.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Printing multiple 'sheets' per page, using adobe's pdf printer

I've got a number of PDFs that are scanned books, and they were scanned 2 pages at a time, and then OCRed
What I'd like to be able to do is re'print' the file to a new PDF file (so that the OCRed text remains searchable in the new file), in a5, so that in stead of 2 pages on every a4 'page' i get one 'book page' per 'PDF page'.
While it's fairly easy to tell Acrobat to print to a5, this will result in every left half of the a4 page being printed to the new file, and every right side of the page being discarded.
But if I rotate all pages in the file 180 degrees and print that, the print preview does show the reversed page properly, but once I print the file, it will rotate the pages back before printing them, once again yielding only the left side of every page (probably in a misguided effort to help me)
Why doesn't the printer automatically print the right side on a new a5 sheet, or at least allow me to orient the pages any way i like while printing them?
Does anyone know of a way for me to print these pages properly, or if the acrobat pdf printer is somehow bugged? (and can/will this be fixed?)

I think that a few folks have suggested some 3rd party products. Within Acrobat, you have to crop and create new PDFs for cropping the right and left parts. You then have to put them back together and reorder the pages.
In AA5, you would crop the left (all pages) and print with expand to size set for your page size. Repeat the process for the right side and print. Then you are back to merging the two documents and reordering pages. There may be a few other tools to use with newer versions of Acrobat, but the print is needed for AA5.

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