Printing to virtual pdf printer

Prior to updating to snow leopard, we were able to select FILE - PRINT and choose an Adobe PDF 9.0 virtual printer - the doc would be converted to pdf and show up on desktop.
Now that we've updated, we go thru the same sequence... everything looks normal (the PDF printer shows that it's working) - but we're not able to find the converted pdf file anywhere.
I realize we can just print and then save as a pdf - but need to regain the ability to print to a virtual printer due to some limitations in Fusion

Apple made a change to the security model in Snow Leopard and Adobe was unable or unwilling to update the virtual printer. CUPS-PDF provides the same functionality but was able to make the necessary 3 minute coding change that Adobe couldn't.
Here are the details on the whole sordid story: https://discussions.apple.com/message/13348075#13348075
Message was edited by: etresoft to provide details

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