How to make "Adobe PDF" printer quiet (no banner) when called from MSAccess?

I have an Access Database which creates reports set up to print to the "Adobe PDF" printer (Acrobat Standard 7.0.7). Everything works great except the pop-up progress window appears during printing and takes over windows control briefly, then when printing finishes, it closes and gives back control to the other window. This makes running large batch .pdf creating operations very intrusive.
How do I make it not display the banner/progress pop-up during printing?
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Tim James

Thanks very much for the information, I was not aware of LiveCycle PDF Generator.
Looking (briefly so far) into the available info it states:
"Import, export, and manipulate attachments, annotations, links, and bookmarks in an XML format"
This sounds like my unrelated goal of implementing something that can take an existing .pdf and a ist of phrase-hyperlink pairs and add links to the given hyperlink to every occurrence of the given phrase would be much better implemented using LiveCycle PDF Generator rather than Acrobat.

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