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I upgraded to the 10.1.7 Acrobat update a few days ago. Now when I print pdf files all the text prints as a solid garbled mass of compressed overlapping characters. Graphic elements print fine. I'm running CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8 and printing on an Espson Stylus Photo 2200.
I've never had any problems printing pdf files prior to this. Is this a bug with the 10.1.7 update, or is it an incompatibility with my printer driver? For now I will have to go back and restore to a previous version of Acrobat in order to print.
Has anyone else had this experience or know how to fix it?

As a temporary measure you can try print as image. Since this happens on all pdf files, you can try re-instaling your printer driver and see if that helps.

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