Printing as "pdf's in Leopard no longer features??

I no longer have the ability to "save/print" anything as a pdf in Leopard! Any ideas - have Apple removed this feature in Leopard - I hope not as it has always been one of Mac's great features. Leopard stinks and I regret upgrading my "Intel's" from 10.4

Well, the only thing would be to compare the rights to those files:
in a Terminal:
cd "/Library/PDF Services"
ls -alt
I'm getting:
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 4 22:42 Mail PDF.workflow/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 4 22:42 Save As PDF-X.workflow/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 4 22:42 Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder.pdfworkflow/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 4 22:42 Save PDF to iPhoto.workflow/
I am the Administrator however. Is this what you see?
Also, did you try setting up a Administrator account (or changing your current account to Administrator?)
(Pulling at straws - you can tell 8)

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Using OX X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), that's now impossible because Snow Leopard is incompatible with the Acrobat 9 PDF print engine. (See this article: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html )
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This is a Snow Leopard problem, so Apple must be responsible for the solution. It worked beautifully with 10.5, and now an upgrade renders it entirely useless.
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ozxx wrote:
I use US Letter and A4 page sizes frequently, but have been known to use other sizes as well. A custom hack would be great, thank-you.
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Copy the PPD file somewhere convenient on your system. Go to System Preferences > Print & Fax > + (to add a printer).
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Now when you print to CUPS-PDF, you will be able to select borderless A4 and borderless US letter. Your PDF files will show up in /Users/Shared/CUPS-PDF/<your user account>/
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(To be honest, I think both of the companies should be working on solutions as urgently as possible as it's disrespectful to their long-term customers.)
Again, I agree. While I am certainly biased towards Apple, in most cases (and especially this case), it is Adobe that needs to get their act in gear. Snow Leopard was released over a year ago. Adobe had pre-release copies long before that. Their PDF printer still doesn't work. Some random guys on the internet (the authors of CUPS-PDF for MacOS X and me) were about to make the 5 minute (no exaggeration!) changes required to produce a functional virtual printer for Snow Leopard. Why can't Adobe?
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html
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