Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat not activated

Adobe CS3, Acrobat Professional 8.1.0, Windows XP Pro: CS3 has been working faultlessly for several years. Suddenly, when I try to print using Adobe PDF as printer I get message "Adobe PDF creation cannot continue because Acrobat not activated". To my knowledge all of CS 3 should be activated. InDesign, Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator, etc work fine. I can even open Acrobat 8 and call up documents but I cannot print to it. When I click on "Activation" in Help menu, both "Activate" and "Deactivate" are grayed out. Any suggestions?

Perhaps you should use this tool:
<http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html>
The tool repairs the license but before using this tool, have you tried re-booting the system just in case this is a temporary problem? Also, it is a good idea to create a temporary profile and try using the PDF printer to see if it is working.
If it is working in your temporary profile, then this suggests that your preference file might need to be re-created but this is for next time after you have tried using the pdf in your test profile.
G/L

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Hi Ajlan,
Thank you for your response to this, and for the link. That's very much appreciated.
In fact it occurred to me this morning to try one more avenue (which I probably should have thought of before) before trying your suggestion. From the Help menu within Acrobat I ran Repair Acrobat Installation, which ran for about a minute or so. Although this didn't seem to have any immediate effect (the print issues remained), a few hours later there was a pop-up notice of an available update to Acrobat X Pro (something I'd never had before in all the four or five months in which CS6 has been installed), which I duly allowed to run - and this seems to have cured all the print issues (printing a PDF as another PDF using Acrobat, and printing to PDF from InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator).
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