Does the Adobe PDF printer run on a Windows 11 virtual machine running on an M3 Mac on Parallels 19?

There are ways of re-registering the modules and .dll files manually.

In the past, I've seen similar issues when trying to virtualize a Microsoft Windows Desktop on a Linux computer using Virtual Box, Wine or PlayOnLinux to test with older unsupported versions of Adobe Reader.

In Wine for Linux, for example, they refer to such virtual device drivers folders as the "bottles" (If I am not mistaken).

And it is extremely tedious trying to figure out how many DLLs and dependencies you may need  on which folders just to make one missing piece of the software that you are trying to virtualize to work properly.

The main advantage on a Linux box is that I can dedicate a full active partition on my hard drive to install a full Windows Desktop version on it, making all the DLLs and dependency modules available for me to copy what I need from actual Windows directories and manually add the needed files on my Wine or PlayOnLinux bottles.

Without the ability to do the same on a macOS environment, you will always end up missing important files because the installation of the Windows OS is purely virtual (more like a generic version).

In any case, I am not familiarized at all with Parallels, but from looking at the folder path " Arm64Vista " it seems like it is a virtual folder created by Parallels, not by the ARM (Adobe Refresh Manager) Windows Installer Package.

Because that folder is named Arm64Vista and not AMD64Vista, I will assume that this is the folder where all 32-bit modules (DLL's) should be registered into in order to for it to be able to interact with both of your desktop hardware and the virtual machine.l (keeping in mind that macOS is all 64-bit).

64-bit modules (mostly for Adobe Creative Cloud services), are on:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe

If it is asking you to type in the file path for that file, on Microsoft Windows that file is spelled as  ADOBEPDF.DLL (all in uppercase letters) and it is found at the following locations:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF\AMD64Vista

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF\I386Vista

And the actual printer driver setup information (.inf ) file is found on:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF\AdobePDF.inf

Note:

There is also a AdobePDF.CAT (catalogue file) there too.

Do you have any of these folders and files?

One thing that I've noticed is that Parallel 19 latest update was launched on December 2023. Have you applied that update?

Also, are you using Rosetta2 on that M3 chip computer? (just curious if this will make any difference).

I would say, contact support for Parallel to see if they are tracking any particular troubleshooting guidance with their software that we may be missing at this time.