Printing Issue - 'Sticking' at Point of 'Creating Adobe PDF'

Installed XI Pro and have a few problems. First is....
Adobe (for lack of better description) 'sticks' at the point of Creating Adobe PDF. The printing never progresses beyond the 'Creating' dialog box (the computer doesn't lock).
The image below might help. Have crossed this in Excel and Word but probably an issues in other software.
Thoughts??

>> There is no doubt that using Adobe Creative Suite
has HUGE advantages.
>> It does
>> everything that Freehand used to do (the past tense
is deliberate - it
>> surely
>> can't survive forever), and a whole lot more... plus
more and more.
>
> This applies partly to Illustrator not to whole CS
including InDesign
> and Photoshop.
Did I miss the point or what? Anyway it is a bit strange to
compare
FreeHand with CS package.
There are still many things that are difficult to do with
multiple
programs that could be done just in FreeHand. Although
FreeHand has quite
poor body text controls (there are layout program like
options but they do
not really work) making for example a book jacket was more
simple and
faster. This is simply because area text in Illustrator is
very slow and
buggy as hell. Even the amount of text in the backcover can
take a lot of
time to adjust. Not to mention that Illustrator reflows text
in random
paragraps while making changes in just one.
I could use InDesign and import all the images and graphic
but that would
be even slower.
Like said I use Illustrator a lot and kinda like it
sometimes, but the
bugs are driving me nuts. Some of the bugs, still not fixed,
appeared in
version 10!!!!
Jukka

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