Hi,
I personally liked Microsoft native tool SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe this will provide you an option to save file as .pdf
You can download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/d
Regards,
Faraz H. Khan
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Browse All TopicsI bought a new computer and have windows vista. I installed Adobe CS3 suite that came with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. Then I got the Windows 7 upgrade kit and upgraded to windows 7.
I tried to generate pdf file using the print option - Adobe PDF Convertor. When I clicked ok, the program will generating a pdf file in error and stayed in the queue. Status: error - printing.
When I use my old computer to generate pdf file, I never have this issue. After cllicking print option to select adobe pdf convertor. I can generate a pdf file where there will be a pop-up for file name and I got to view the output in a new adobe acrobat window.
I have no clue what has been wrong and how to fix it? Any suggestion?
Thanks.
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Hi,
I personally liked Microsoft native tool SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe this will provide you an option to save file as .pdf
You can download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/d
Regards,
Faraz H. Khan
Try re-installing Acrobat 8 Professional as this is what installs the PDF Printer. Something might have gone bonkers with the upgrade :)
If that doesn't work try http://www.dopdf.com/
Adobe does not appear to officially support Acrobat 8 Pro on Windows 7. The latest update of 10-13-09 does not list Windows 7 in its requirements note, although it does show versions of Vista and older products.
But, here are some things you could try. First, make sure you have updated to Acrobat 8 Pro 8.1.7 and try printing again. Available here,
http://www.adobe.com/suppo
If this does not work, uninstall Acrobat 8 Pro and then reinstall it, so Windows 7 will make the proper registry entries. Be sure to apply the Acrobat 8.1.7 upgrade again and retest. If this still fails, it is likely a compatibility issue (possibly unique to the Windows 7 upgrade process and not a clean install) and Adobe will probably say to upgrade to Acrobat 9 to run in Windows 7.
A pdf printer alternative you might want to consider is PdfCreator,
http://www.pdfforge.org/pr
if all you want to do is print to a pdf formatted file.
Thanks for all the advice.
I found this explanation when tried to solve this matter,
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/3
After reading a few support articles from Microsoft and Adobe, I believe it is because of Windows x64.
Yes. I am using 63-bits Windows 7 (running on 12 Gb RAM) while my version of Adobe suite is running on 32bits applications.
I am still working on this.... positively, minimum I know what is the problem now. I will keep you update.
Thanks.
I tried many different ways to fix it. Talk to Adobe too. They just said AA 8 Pro will not work for Windows 7 and asked me to upgrade to AA 9 Pro. Total useless.
For the time being, I uninstalled AA 8 Pro (single component) from my Adobe Design Premium CS3 suite. I downloaded AA 9 Pro from Adobe.com (30 days trial). The print function is working well now.
I likely will buy the CS4 suite. However, I am very reluctant to do that.
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Thank you all for your advice. I resolved this by buying a copy of Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. I did not get the Adobe CS4 since all the other programs are working except Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro. So I uninstalled one component from CS3. Not the 'perfect' solution I would like...but better than spending hours trying to solve this.
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by: dlSmlSSPosted on 2009-11-05 at 23:55:24ID: 25757392
I think you need repair|reinstall your CS3 because Adobe PDF Converter use virtual printer, distiller, PostScript. If one of this component does not work you will not able to do PDF files.