Reader 8.1.2 Mac still won't print under Leopard

Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 just released still does not allow for PDFs to be printed under Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard).
The result when trying to print is the same as with v8.1.1 - it pauses the printer and leaves the job queued.
Having waited over three (3) months for this BASIC issue to be fixed, this is an unbelievable disappointment. I can only hope the Acrobat CS3 products are fixed....

Johndes,
Beginning with OS X 10.5, some of us could not print a PDF from the Adobe Reader program. Our printers would be put on "pause" rather than printing the document.
The expectation was that when Acrobat Reader was upgraded to v. 8.1.2, that Adobe would have that anomaly fixed. The beginning of this thread starts at the point where v 8.1.2 was released, and it was recognized that there was no fix, and our printers would continue to pause rather than print.
You are correct that we could open and print PDFs from another program. I used PDFPen because Preview would also pause my printer. That doesn't change the fact that, for whatever reason, Adobe Reader was the only application which required this workaround to get a printed copy. And, that happened on every later version of OS X 10.5, including 10.5.1.
I resolved the problem with an ERASE AND INSTALL of Leopard. I don't know where the problem originated, but I can now print directly from Adobe Reader. To me, it was worth that effort.

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