Acrobat 8 won't install PDf printer driver

[Dave Rado]

I recently had to buy a new laptop which runs Windows 7 - my old one ran XP.

I have installed Acrobat 8 Standard on my new machine, but it hasn't
installed the PDF printer driver.

I have found several posts on the web from people with similar problem
but none of the solutions I've seen seem to work with my setup.

For example, see the thread at:
http://acrobathelp.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/adobe-acrobat-8.html

Steve Lionel posted:
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# Open Control Panel, select Printers
# Click Add a Printer
# Click Add a local printer
# Select Use an existing port (should be preselected), change the port
to "Desktop \*.pdf (Adobe PDF Port), click Next
# On the next page, click Have Disk...
# Click Browse and browse to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF (or wherever you have Acrobat installed),
click OK.
# It should now show a series of "Adobe PDF Converter" entries. Select
the first one and click Next
# Change the printer name if desired, uncheck the box to use it as a
default printer, click Next
# Do not print a test page, click Finish
# Find your new printer in Printers. Right click on it and select
Properties, Advanced
# Click "Print directly to the printer", click OK

You're in business.
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I got stuck at step 4 - the list of existing ports in the listbox I have
are:

LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
FILE
OneNote Port
XPSPort


"Desktop \*.pdf (Adobe PDF Port) is not listed.

So how can I get the PDF driver installed under Windows 7?


Thanks for any help you can offer.

Dave

[Dave Rado]

I've got it working now.

I went to Control Panel/Printers/Add Printer/Local Printer.

I then selected "Create a new port", gave the port the name of "Adobe
PDF", clicked "Have Disk", browsed to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF" and got a list of 5 printers, all called
"Adobe PDF Converter". I selected the first, and it seemed to install
the driver. I then went to Control Panel/Printers, selected Properties
for the new printer, and on the Advanced tab, selected "Print Directly
to Printer".

Finally, I had to rename the printer from "Adobe PDF Converter" to
"Adobe PDF", as Adobe's own PDF Maker macro doesn't recognise the
printer otherwise. How stupid is that???

But there's still one weird problem. I use Thunderbird, and when I try
to print from Thunderbird, e.g. if I try to print this post, instead of
creating a pdf, it creates a log file, containing the following text:

"%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
Cambria not found, using Courier.
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%

Stack:
[83 92 92 91 59 41 92 42 83 92 0]
(

 )


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%"

Any idea why it won't print from Thunderbird?


Dave

Post by Dave Rado
I recently had to buy a new laptop which runs Windows 7 - my old one ran XP.
I have installed Acrobat 8 Standard on my new machine, but it hasn't
installed the PDF printer driver.
I have found several posts on the web from people with similar problem
but none of the solutions I've seen seem to work with my setup.
http://acrobathelp.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/adobe-acrobat-8.html
_____________________________________
# Open Control Panel, select Printers
# Click Add a Printer
# Click Add a local printer
# Select Use an existing port (should be preselected), change the port
to "Desktop \*.pdf (Adobe PDF Port), click Next
# On the next page, click Have Disk...
# Click Browse and browse to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat
8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF (or wherever you have Acrobat installed),
click OK.
# It should now show a series of "Adobe PDF Converter" entries. Select
the first one and click Next
# Change the printer name if desired, uncheck the box to use it as a
default printer, click Next
# Do not print a test page, click Finish
# Find your new printer in Printers. Right click on it and select
Properties, Advanced
# Click "Print directly to the printer", click OK
You're in business.
_____________________________________
I got stuck at step 4 - the list of existing ports in the listbox I have
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
FILE
OneNote Port
XPSPort
"Desktop \*.pdf (Adobe PDF Port) is not listed.
So how can I get the PDF driver installed under Windows 7?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Dave

[David H. Lipman]

Post by Dave Rado
I recently had to buy a new laptop which runs Windows 7 - my old one ran XP.

Acrobat v8 isn't Win7 compliant. Thus not everything will work.

[Dave Rado]

Post by David H. Lipman

Post by Dave Rado
I recently had to buy a new laptop which runs Windows 7 - my old one ran XP.

Acrobat v8 isn't Win7 compliant. Thus not everything will work.

How did they manage not to be Windows 7 compliant, when even my 1990
software such as Word 2 for Windows, which was written when Windows 3.0
was still shipping, all works perfectly under Windows 7? If Adobe wrote
their software according to the Windows programming guidelines it would
work in all current and future versions of Windows. Are you really
saying that Adobe broke the programming guidelines? And do you have any
hard evidence to back up your statement?

[d***@gmail.com]

Post by Dave Rado

Post by David H. Lipman
Acrobat v8 isn't Win7 compliant. Thus not everything will work.

How did they manage not to be Windows 7 compliant, when even my 1990
software such as Word 2 for Windows, which was written when Windows 3.0
their software according to the Windows programming guidelines it would
work in all current and future versions of Windows. Are you really
saying that Adobe broke the programming guidelines? And do you have any
hard evidence to back up your statement?

Fixed by running a ton of Acrobat updates...