Acrobat windows process locked

Hello,
We use Acrobat SDK in VB script in order to generate PDF with watermark.
Unfortunately, when the script is executed (with success) the Acrobat windows process stays loaded in memory. ANd so we cannot launch again the process.
I added more and more log information in the script but as today I can not find the error.
Could you help me?
Regards,
Maxim

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