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The Adobe PDF Printer included with Creative Suite 6 is not available or is unusable in Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). This situation is due to security features in Snow Leopard that disables the Adobe PDF Printer. Adobe Acrobat 9.1 Pro removes the Adobe PDF Printer and adds a new Save As Adobe PDF command.
Is there a patch or work around for this? It also applies to Lion (10.7).
2013-04-12 20:15:07
Thanks everyone for your help and comments. I am moving on to Mac OS 10.7.5 (Lion) for now, at least I can make PDF's and print them, no problem.
2013-04-12 19:26:10
Can you disable the specific security setting in Snow Leopard?
2013-04-12 20:17:17
I tried some tricks in Terminal, but nothing worked. I was on the phone with Apple and Adobe for over an hour and they really could not help me. I am moving on to Mac OS 10.7.5, at least I can make PDF's and print them.
2013-04-11 09:05:23
You can try using CUPS-PDFhttp://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/It is reported to work up to 10.8 but I haven't tested it in a while mostly because I wasn't always satisfied with the PDFs it produced (not searchable, quality of images regardless of quality settings).But if your workflow relies on having a PDF printer I believe it is worth a shot.
2013-04-10 09:23:31
Sorry you can not (very frustrating!) My solution has been to use deskPDFCreator - from time to time as reward app.
2013-04-10 06:46:45
After reading this: http://andygent.co.uk/?p=236 it looks like you can't. Read through the article and it might have a work around for it.Good luck.