No Scanners to Select in Adobe Scan to PDF?

I have a Lexmark X5450 Printer/Scanner and am running Snow Leopard (10.6.1). There are updated device drivers and I've successfully been able to use both scanners equipped on the X5450 in Image Capture. However, when I use Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and want to directly create a PDF "From Scanner", there is no scanner to select in the device menu. Is this a glitch/bug. Is there some special way to get Acrobat 9 to detect my scanner? I deleted and readded my printer/scanner in System Preferences to no avail? Any suggestions? Thanks!

All would be well if Adobe would stop rufusing to support universal Binary Drivers. People are not just going to ditch their scanner they paid hundereds of dollars for just because Adobe refuses to accept universal Binary Drivers. OSX.6 is a Fairly new OS. and in order to use it you have to spend possibly thousands of Dollars for a new machine to run OSX.6.3 on. Its going to take a while to weed out all the power PC machines. So universal binary is the ticket for now.
Ok, for your Printer Issue, Get on Google and google for the S.A.N.E. Twain Project. (SANE is the Driver system UNIX uses for Scanners). read the page and look for a URL (hotlink for Macintosh)
Now click that link. First look to see if a Mac version of the Sane/Twain Driver is availble for your Printer. If listed, locate the files for your Scanner there should be about 5 or 6 components for your printer stuff like front end, Back end, and so on. Do not download the SDK's unless you are a developer). make sure nothing is running other than finder. install all components. (make sure you download version for X.5). no particular order just so all are installed.
Now restart computer and go to System Preferences open control panel installed and set for your scanner or Family you scanner is in.
Now open Acrobat and go to document men down to Create PDF from SCanner. click on any scanner and your scanner or rather SANE?Twin should show you all set.
now on a slow machine the interface is very slow and if doesn't have adaquate memory the software (not Acrobat) might corrupt it might show a Black screen in the preview. if so just reinstall components and keep on trucking does color and Black and white. I've used it for years to scan documents from an old UMax Flat Bed scanner, on Acrobat. works fine in Acrobat 9.

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