Why doesn't Acrobat use Windows' default printer?!
I'll grant that this is only a minor annoyance, but still, how can the programmers do something this stupid? I generate my invoice in Word and PRINT it to Adobe PDF. The PDF invoice opens in Acrobat and from there I want to print a physical copy for my accountant. Because otherwise I have to keep switching the Word's printer settings back and forth, which is a waste of time. But rather than using Windows' standard printer, Acrobat DC is preset to use whatever printer Word just used. Which is Acrobat and then there's an internal error because it can't print to itself.
THIS IS WHY WINDOWS HAS A DEFAULT PRINTER, so we don't have to choose the damned printer every time we open a new program. Every program is supposed to default to the DEFAULT printer. That's why it exists. Why the hell is Acrobat programmed to ignore that? What is the logic of that? I can't find anywhere in the preferences to tell it to always use the default printer either. Is there one?
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