Mac Mojave will not Print PDF

My Mac air on latest Mojave now refuses to print PDFs. Both IOS and Adobe are up to date.

Posted on May 20, 2019 10:20 AM

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Posted on May 20, 2019 2:02 PM

Boot into Safe Mode and try from there.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

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Old Toad

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May 20, 2019 2:02 PM in response to Danssmith1

Boot into Safe Mode and try from there.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

May 20, 2019 10:43 AM in response to Danssmith1

Printing from what application? Adobe?

What exactly happens when you try? Any error message?

Did you try printing from Preview?

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