Adobe PDF 9.0 printer not working

The Adobe PDF printer is broken and has been replaced in 9.1 by a Save as Adobe PDF. More information is available here at Adobe's web site.

The "Save As Adobe PDF" printing workflow is not working for me under Snow Leopard. Every time I print through this workflow, after the Adobe PDF settings dialog box comes up, the print job crashes. No pdf gets written to the disk. I've repeated used the "Repair Acrobat Installation" menuchoice on the Help menu under Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 to no avail.

Any suggestions on this?

Also, given this new workflow and the absence of the Adobe PDF printer, is there any way to "redistill" a pdf? Previously one could drastically reduce the size of a pdf by re-printing from Adobe Acrobat through the Adobe PDF printer. This practice would, for instance, consolidate redundant embedded font subsets.

Thanks for any suggestions. This is a big problem for me becuase the redistilling process made it possible to print Pages '09 documents with a large number of Mathtype equations; the redundant font subsets (one for each equation) makes the output print jobs very large.

This was changed and removed in Snow Leopard. I didn't know this until I came across the issue also. I use the print booklet option in InDesign to create a PDF in booklet format and it completely stopped working. Here is a link to Adobe's site as to what happened. I can tell you from my experience in the past week, none of the workarounds that Adobe says they put in place worked for me.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html

I'm having the same problem and have not found a fix yet either.

I've just upgraded to Acrobat Pro 9 (actually 9.1.3) for supposed Snow Leopard compatibility and was having the same problem with the "save as Adobe PDF" workflow crashing. Interestingly (or not), if I created a Postscript file and then manually ran it through the Distiller everything was fine, although the Distiller seems to be running much more slowly than the Distiller for Acrobat 8 did under Leopard. This led me to the conclusion that the problem was in the workflow itself rather than with the components that the workflow calls.

I found that there were actually three copies of "Save as Adobe PDF.action" on my box. One was in root/Library/Automator, one was in root/Users/UserID/Library/Automator, and the third was in root/System/Library/Automator. For some reason the Adobe Updater must have put the workflow in all three. Regardless, by eliminating all except the version in root/System/Library/Automator the workflow started behaving and I was able to cut PDFs directly from the Print dialog.

This may not work for everyone, but it may be worth a try.

I still am having problems even though the Adobe PDF 9.0 printer no longer works and we are to use the 'Save As' function. Within Microsoft Entourage, Adobe is not an option. Is Adobe and/or Microsoft working on correcting this issue?

I've been reading these (and other) posts concerning pdf-printing.
For a long time now i'm am looking for a way to select a bunch of word-docs in Finder and then pdf them (same place, same name, just different extension). I'm not an expert, but still it amazes me that something apparently easy, is very hard to find. I know automator should be able to handle this.
But:
- "print finder items" is no longer an option under Snow Leopard (with acrobat)
- "save as pdf"-button never was an on because you have to pdf every single file seperately
- the "Save as Adobe pdf" workflow should be interesting, but i get the "universal" issue. After installing rosetta, i still get the "universal" issue.

I must be missing something... it just seems silly that apple doesnt have a "save as pdf" workflow that i can use in automator. I don't NEED acrobat, i just want to be able to select 40 docs and just print them as pdf, without hassle.

Look at the scripts in /Library/Scripts/Printing Scripts, particularly the Convert To PDF.scpt. Open this in Script Editor and save it as a droplet.

hope this helps.

As I can tell from script editor, the "Convert to PDF" applescript only works with +jpg, gif, pct, tif+, and rtf files.

There are instructions from Adobe to run Automator in 32-bit so that +Save to Adobe PDF+ will load: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/512/cpsid_51248.html, but it still doesn't work for me when I try to run the workflow. I get an error message that the job option path and destination path aren't valid. Am also interested how to batch process pdf conversion of various document types in snow leopard with this new option.

Here + http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx+ would be a substitute for the Adobe Printer, but I can't get it to work on snow leopard despite trying to update the privileges as the site advises. There should be a new version posted soon however

Message was edited by: Don.a.dio

Message was edited by: Don.a.dio

The cups-pdf printer I mentioned before: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx will work on Snow Leopard per the instructions of users SFJeep and JLG
here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007082812233971&msg=15