Missing Adobe PDF printer instance--Frame 7.2

I just installed Frame 7.2 and Acrobat 7 (I also have Acro 6 and Frame 7.1 on the machine), but in that install I did not end up with an adobe printer instance so I cannot save to PDF. I've been all over the forum and web but cannot figure out where I would get this (and why it wasn't within the install). Any suggestions? Thanks....jen

I'm not sure about the compatibility of those earlier versions of
FrameMaker and Acrobat with Windows 7 64-bit, but when you say you have
the same problem, do you mean that you still got no "Adobe PDF" (or in
older Acrobat versions, "Acrobat Distiller") printer instance when you
reinstalled? Or just that you still cannot save as PDF? If you still get
no printer instance, you probably do need to update to Acrobat 11.
But if the virtual printer is there, but Save As in Framemaker is not
working, try instead to print the file and choose the virtual printer,
rather than using Save as PDF.  Save as PDF was highly unreliable in
earlier versions of FrameMaker, and the cause of a large number of
support issues on this forum. Plus, there were changes made in Acrobat's
file locations around version 7 or 8? (the version, I think, that
changed the printer name from Acrobat Distiller to Adobe PDF) that broke
the Save As PDF ability completely in older FM versions, because they
were still looking in the old locations for the support files.
In general, any version of Acrobat should work with any version of
FrameMaker, as long as you print to PDF, rather than Save as PDF.

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