Installing the PDF Printer only ?

Hello,
We bought a bunch of Acrobat license for most of our users and we want to have some of the users using the Full product, while most of users should only have the right to print to PDF.
I have been trying to install the PDF Printer only using the "Custom install" option from SETUP.EXE, but I can't install only the printer. Acrobat Standard will always get installed.
Is there anyway I can install only the Printer and not the full Acrobat product?
Thanks,
Christophe

Is installing a separate PDF software printer the only way?
Depends on what application you want to do this for. For some applications there are third-party action downloads available that can allow you to, for example, export InDesign files to a specified folder in PDF.

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