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Im running windows 7 with acrobat pro x.
When i print pdf to the local drive it works perfectly but when i try print to a network drive it does nothing. When i go to control panel and printter and double click on adobe pdf it shows that it tried but then it just says error printing and doesnt really give me anymore information. The user full permision to the drives even logging in as administrator didnt help.
has anyone come across this before? or have any ideas.
thanks in advance
Timo

Michael is in a lot better position to help. However, such actions used to be quite common, but seemed to be dependent on either the type of network being used or on the setup. There seems to be something related to the temp folder issue that gets in the way. Being that is as much as I know about the problem, I will pass it back to Michael who should be able to do a lot better at helping.

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