Acrobat 8 printing problems

Mac 10.5.1 Can't get the Adobe Printer 7.0 to work through any application (Excel, Word, Lightroom) i.e creating PDF's

Trying to create a PDF using Acrobat of an Excel doc comes up with an Unsupported/Damaged file dialogue box

In Excel File--> Print --> Print --> Save does not produce a PDF Doc. Document appears in the Printer Queue window, however the doc status remains on Stopped even when printer is Resumed.

In Excel File--> Print --> PDF --> Save as PDF --> Save creates a document however there is no info in it. It does work in Word though.

What gives?

On a mac in order to prevent strange Printer problems do the following:

download the new driver. (do not install at this time.

Go to Printer Utility and delete that instance of that printer. Quit printer Utility.

now use find file to find and locate the actual (old) print Driver should be installed in a specific folder for the brand of Printer.

Remove all instances to Trash.

Empty Trash.

Now and only now install the new print driver.

Now go back to Printer Utility and add the new driver.

if desired make it the default printer Driver.

Now go to acrobat and in printer set up choose the printer customize as desired and sve you customized setting and name accordingly. now try printing your document.

with each application you should customize how you want everything set up and name the customized file according to application. Then when you go to that application choose that custoimization

I'm having the same red printing problem with my HP 2605 from Acrobat Professional 8.1.2 on an iMac running Leopard. I just downloaded the latest HP driver tonight.

PDFs printed from Preview are fine and the PDFs I've tried to print come from different sources (exported from Quark, InDesign CS3, or downloaded brochures from the web).

Documents printed look like they have a rubylith overlay on objects with background color like photo images and solid boxes with type reversed.

Andrew - we are PC shop (sorry for posting in the MAC forum) but we have a HP 5000DN. Running windowsXP and Acrobat 8.1 we can only print the first page of a pdf - only from machines running the updated version anything version 7 and older prints fine. We have another printer on the network a Brother - we CAN print to that - so I wonder if it is an HP thing. I was searching for similar posts when i found this.

Amber

Re: my post a bit further back....can you print ok if you open it in earlier Acrobat? And have you found any difference if you distill the PDF using different settings on Distiller?

I am also having issues with the whole page being red. I am running adobe 8 on a max (no leopard) and an hp cm1015. I've called hp and they said it has to be adobe. I reinstalled adobe with no luck, but the same document prints fine in preview.

I'm having a problem with Acrobat 8. I have an HP LaserJet 5000n and we print a lot of PDF files to it. Lately it has been printing VERY slowly to the printer and only PDF files are slow. When we print a AutoCAD drawing from a PDF it just plain seizes up and doesn't print. I tried printing the same documents from another computer with adobe 7 and it printed just fine. Everyone with adobe 8 is having the same problem so it leads me to believe it is an adobe problem. Everyone is running Windows XP. Any suggestions?

Do you still have Acrobat 7 installed?

If so try and see it it works. If not then its a Adobe/HP conflict.

"So the problem only arises with the combination of Acrobat 8/HP2550/Mac "
yes, and I can add that I still have the same problem (prints come out all red) with Mac OS X 5.1. no use in updating! I also installed the printer driver again, though it's only made for Mac OS X 4 (no higher version available). My config: HP color LaserJet 2550Ln, Mac G5, Adobe CS3.

Go to HP and see if there is an updated Print Driver for the mac. Your more likely to see HP give even though its not their problem.