Adobe will only print to PDF

This is a recent problem that started with both Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard and Adobe Reader 9.
When the print dialogue is brought up, it switches from the default printer to Adobe PDF. If you pull down the menu and try any other printer, it switches right back to Adobe PDF. I can't find anything in the settings for why this would happen and the various searches I tried didn't bring up any similar problems.
Adobe Acrobat has been uninstalled and reinstalled since this started happening but nothing was fixed.
Non Adobe programs are not affected by this and print out fine. Windows 7 is the OS.

You should know that the general advice on the Acrobat forum is to
not have Reader AND Acrobat installed, since that may cause confusion
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/689241?tstart=0

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Brother suggested I remove adobe reader and reinstal.

Are these documents created in landscape or portrait format?
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We are trying to implement a process so that any document that needs to be printed through our Java application will be printed as PDF using Adobe Reader.
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But, the same is not working while executing it from Deployed environment.
Software being used: 1. Adobe 11.0 enterprise version. 2. Webshpere Application Server 8.5.5.2.
Please let us know if there is a way to enable trace logs in Adobe Reader to further diagnose this issue.

This is the Acrobat.com forum. Your question will have a much better chance being addressed in the Acrobat SDK forum.

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Upgraded to XI std from v9 pro
OS is Win7
XI will not print to pdf
access denied
v9 pro prints to pdf
found no solution from web and forum search
found others the issue
will this issue be corrected in XI?
thanks
hime

I had the same issue - and it is discussed in several posts around the net without providing a solution.
Here is my solution on a Windows 8 system:
I reinstalled Windows 8 to identify the problem and installed stepwise all programmes I had
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Once I went back to the last restore point BEFORE the Corel Draw installation, Adobe worked perfectly fine. I reinstalled Corel WITHOUT Ghostscript and the Shell Extension (didn't want to verify which one caused the problem) everything was fine again.
Yet, deinstalling Ghostscript and the Shell Extension did not solve the problem.
I also did not try to repair Adobe after the deinstall of Ghostscript and Shell Extension
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Terry101
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PDF documents can be tricky -- sometimes, especially if you are trying to print these from the Internet, PDF files can be stupid-hard to print because the format is messed up.
You can take a look at the following - no garantees -- it might help you find something that will help nail down what is going wrong or maybe help you figure out a way to get what you need. For example, if all else fails, you can perhaps take a Snip of the document on the screen, save the Image, and print that. It is a sorry excuse for a workaround - but at least you end up with something on paper.
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Hello Kathie,
Sorry for the inconvenience that has caused to you.
Please let me know if you have tried converting any other PDF to word with Reader.
Alos, please sign up at "https://cloud.acrobat.com/" using your Adobe ID credentials. Click on 'ExportPDF' tab and upload the PDF that you want to convert to Word.
Let me know if this converts fine.
Hope to hear from you.
regards,
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Good morning;
I am currently running InDesign CS5.5 on Windows 7.
I have a 103 page document which will only print to page 41 when I choose "Print to PDF".
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The document was working fine earlier this week. I could print everything to pdf.LiveFlight reports no errors
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I've tried restarting the computer, shutting down, etc
I was able to successfuly print the following to pdf:
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Are you sure it’s been fully generated? PDF export is a background process.
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Bob

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