Adobe pdf printer disappeared

I have installed CS5 and Acrobat a year ago an it have worked OK. Then a couple of month ago my pdf-printer dissapeared from the printer list. I fixed it but I don't remember how I did it. and now the printer have dissapeared again. Can anyone help me?

Open Acrobat and run Help>Repair.

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It seems there's a similar issue with the 9.4.2 Windows upgrade (see Acrobat Windows forums). What now? Deinstall Acrobat? Or how do I revert to a older version?!
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Ditto...
This is a whole lot of pain unfortunately. I am sitting here lamenting why oh why did I upgrade?? But then it can only improve right? Whats the harm? Surely this will make things better? After all, it didn't really point out that the Acrobat Printer would no longer be available. I will never again do an upgrade on Acrobat as it has done this to me before previously and it was a pain to sort out!
Graphics users need the Adobe Acrobat PS Printer as without this we are not able to set document parametres for print iro commercial printing. Crop marks, page size, reg marks etc. Which can only be accessed via the software once the Acrobat PS Printer output option has been selected.
Simply selecting create Postscript file or PDF.... has none of those attributes and is probably less useful than a chocolate teapot. certainly not a "Pro" - "Professional" option, but rather meant for the masses who have basic Acrobat requirements.
I don't really care to get into the realms as to who did what and whether it was Apples security option or Adobe's upgarde. This outcome is going to upset a lot of graphics users who have paid good money for this package as it was originally intended (for the professional with professional requirements ie PS options) and I for one am annoyed at software companies changing the rules as time goes on. Its the consumer that keeps being inconvenienced all the time.
If memory recalls, we have to totally uninstall and reload. But theres a catch there somewhere if I remember correctly as the uninstaller does not recognize certain files and if you apply the reinstall using the older version of Acrobat, residual files from the newer version create issues. Something like that. Not sure that makes sense to me either. But I remember theres a curve ball there somewhere...
Going to be a long night!
Rule for the future. Don't upgrade.

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At the same time I started having problems updating Acrobat (see my post yesterday, please), my Adobe PDF printer disappeared from system preferences. I've added it back using the help>repair option, but the printer no longer works.
Every time I try to print, the printer pauses, then when I restart it and try to resume the document I get an error...
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Client-error-not-possible
I've done a complete uninstall/reinstall of the whole Design Standard CS3 suite 3 times now, including removing my prefs and serial number (so starting from scratch), but this error, and the Acrobat updating problem, won't go away.
Please can someone help me on these?
Thanks, Nige

Try going to Printer Utility and deleting any reference to the adobe Pdf Printer Driver.
Then you find file anlocate all versions of PDF Printer. remove all traces of version Previous to this version.
Now open Acrobat and got to help menu repair and replace and have it repair the Printer Driver again.
Note: PDF Printer does not work within Acrobat nor Reader. only with other applications. (Or at least I've never been able to have it work within Acrobat/Reader.)

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That shouldn't even be possible: Standard and Pro are mutually exclusive. Not surprised it has broken.
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a. Make sure you have your Standard serial numbers and install media.
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Adobe PDF has disappeared as one of my printer choices. How do I get it back?

What version of Acrobat?
What system?
What did you change, if anything?

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Try repairing Acrobat installation - Open control panel, select Acrobat and chose the option to repair.

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The print process for PDFs as you have described is to create a PS file and then activate Distiller in the background to complete the process. A necessarily background application for this process is AcroTray that I suspect someone has removed. To check the process at the base level, use these steps:
1. use print-to-file and save the file someplace you can find
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3. You should get a PDF
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I found this answer from Deepak Chauhan on another forum, and it solved this problem!
Try this to add Adobe PDF printer manually on Windows 7, and Windows Vista.
If windows 7 is Enterprise or better edition: (Admin rights required)
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- go to ports and delete the PDF ports (the ones ending in *.pdf)
- go to drivers and delete the PDF converter.
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1: go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers
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2: go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors
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