I have Acrobat 9 Pro....Printing issues

Question

I have creted a PDF out Illustrator.....views fine, but when I print some of the copy is not printing and random shapes or boxes are there instead.....I have tried it on 2 different printers.  ....now, I have emailed it to friends and they seem to print it ok.
So I am a desinger and live on PDF's, and I have not had this issue before.....what's up?
Please help, casue it's my resume and need a new gig!

Answer 1

tat10bat wrote:
I have creted a PDF out Illustrator.....views fine, but when I print some of the copy is not printing and random shapes or boxes are there instead.....I have tried it on 2 different printers.  ....now, I have emailed it to friends and they seem to print it ok.
So I am a desinger and live on PDF's, and I have not had this issue before.....what's up?
Please help, casue it's my resume and need a new gig!
Have you recently changed Operating systems (going from X.4.11 to X.5.8 or from X.5.8 to X.6.7)?
Its possible that you  have Print Driver issues for those printers.
When I switched to a new Mac (Intel processor) Computer, with X.6, I had to completely abandon my Printer and buy new.
Go to the website for each printer and downlod the newest version of pRint Driver for your system.
Down load the most current version of the Driver.
Now go to Printer Utility or Printer/Fax System Preference.
remove and delete current driver, Close out of Printer/Fax or Printer Utility.
Now install Print Driver you downloaded.
go back to Printer/Fax or Printer Utility and have it locate the printer.
Now make it Default.
In your case repeat the above with your secondary Printer.
Now, if you have X.6.7 Installed go to apple.com and look for this : http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1377 , Install.
Then run Fontbook and  verify fonts. (remove any that don't verify or Find a Font repair utility and fix.)
Next  run Fontbook and look for Resolve Duplicates.
Now remove any duplicates found Place those in a zip archive, then place somewhere for safe keeping (may have removed the version of your font you were using and you would have to swap)
now after archive have been made and saved, throw originals (you made the zip archive from) in Trash and empty.
Now restart computer in safe Mode (shift key down on X.6 and shift-S on older OS's) wait until sign in screen shows up.
Wait for system to completely load.
Empty Trash.
Now restart computer normally.
Now open your Pdf's and try  to print.
Should print okay now unless you have something not set right in Acrobat.
You might downlaod and install Reader and see if you can print from there.
If so you mighthave an issue with acrobat that you may need to remove and reinstall.
If you need to remove and reinstall , use the Uninstaller that is in the Acrobat Folder in the Application directory.
Even then you'll still have to remove, Preferences and any files associated with Acrobat except any PDF's and the fonts.
Then you have to re update Acrobat to current Level.