Direct Printing PDF via Acrobat 8.0 under Lion

Direct printing a PDF via Acrobat 8.0 worked under Snow Leopard but no longer under Lion. I have a relatively old installation of CS3 on my MacBookPro and wanted to print a pages document with 12 x 12 cm size onto an A4 page (with integrated cutting marks) - this is not possible with the integrated PDF printer in Lion an so i decided to use Acrobat 8.0.
The Console says the following:
Process:         DistillerIntf [30793]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/DistillerIntf
Identifier:      DistillerIntf
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: pdf800 [30788]
Date/Time:       2011-11-05 13:18:36.563 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version: 9
Crashed Thread: 7
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/DistillerIntf
    __TEXT                 0000000000001000-0000000000003000 [    8K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/DistillerIntf
Has anybody an idea how to solve this problem. Of course i posted this error on the Adobe Help forums but since these guys only want to sell the newest Suites if have no hope, that somebody will respond to my question - and i think it is a Lion issue (CUPS problem).
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/921666

This is right, but since the upgrade to Lion was a relatively big one (with many functionalities that i have be missing before) i think i will not go back just to regain a normal-working direct PDF printing. Nevertheless i think, if the very old CS3 worked until Snow Leopard it would be very easy for an Apple Engineer to figure out, which trick would allow Acrobat to direct print again - i don't think the underlying CUPS has changed very much - also i found a lot of similar error reports on the web (mostly Acrobat related after updates from System ) which were solved via correcting some rights in the library (this didn't do the trick for me ...)
Best problem solving would be, that Adobe Software gets cheaper - i have installed the newest Aperture, iWork, Office, iLife, Mindmanager, ... - if you are not a student but a hobby worker these software packages are quite affordable ...

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Printing PDF with Acrobat 9.0 for CS4 and Mac OSx10.6.2 not working properly.

I downloaded the CS4 for MAC Trial before purchasing. I work on a MacBook Pro OSx10.6.2. The download and installation was successful.
However, upon launching the Adobe Acrobat 9.0 software, I received the following message: "REPAIR SETUP: Acrobat has detected that there are missing components that require repair. Select the optional components you would like to repair and click continue." My choices were: 1) Adobe PDF Printer, and 2) Adobe PDF View Safari Plugin. I chose Continue. When I am in another program (like Quark 7.5), and try to Print to the Adobe 9.0 Printer, the document spools, as if printing, but I do not get prompted to save the PDF anywhere, and when it is done "printing" there is not a document saved anywhere. It appears to be getting stuck in the distilled, although I don't really know. I tried un-installing the entire CS4 software and re-installing and had the same exact thing happen again. Can anyone help?

Do as I do on some items. Install a utility called TypeIt4Me the go to the announcement. Copy the link. choose add clipping give it a name put / or \ at the end so it you type the same words normally it don't trigger the typeIt4Me entry. then when you need to type the words (code used) and wait for TypeIt4Me enter it. the item highlighted in my attachment is this:
http://indesignsecrets.com/acrobats-adobe-pdf-printer-replaced-in-snow-leopard.php
which is the link to the InDesign article about snow leopard and creating Adobe quality PDF's

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