Acrobat 6.0 and Windows 7 - is there a PDF printer driver available?

Report · Oct 26, 2009

Hi,

I have been using Acrobat 6.0 with Windows XP fine. However, I just got a new computer that has Windows 7.

I installed Acrobat 6.0 but cannot now convert any documents to PDF on this new computer. I get this error--

"The PDF maker cannot find the Adobe PDF printer driver and to reinstall Adobe Acrobat 6.0"

However, reinstalling Acrobat 6.0 does not help, nor does the repair feature.

Is There a patch for this product? Can I download a driver for the PDF printer so that it is compatible with Windows 7?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Report · Oct 26, 2009

The point is this, you will be lucky if AA6 will install on Win7. For VISTA, a few folks got AA7 to work, but the first certified version was AA8.1.3. The main culprit may be AcroTray with VISTA and Win7. You may be able to use AA6. If the print to the Adobe PDF printer does not work, then try the printer with the print-to-file selected. Then open the file in Distiller. That may work. I am not sure that anyone has indicated any success with AA6 on these newer systems, but with your constraints these ideas might help.

WORD 2007 requires at least AA8.1.3 to get PDF Maker. You can still print to PDF, but not use PDF Maker in AA6 with OFFICE 2007.

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Report · Aug 12, 2011

good post. and nice dicussion!

Report · Sep 25, 2011

This discussion couple years old but I got Acrobat 6.0 to run on Windows 7. First installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 then installed Acrobat 6.0 ignoring compatibility issues and it runs successfully. Installing other versions of Photoshop first may also let Acrobat work. Photoshop must provide some of the missing drivers or routines needed by Acrobat 6.0 to operate on Windows 7.

Report · May 07, 2021

I am using the Canon Laserbase MF3220 driver on Win 10 64bit ,, it runs smoothly

Report · Sep 16, 2024

hi, i want acrobat distiller 6.0 version

Report · Sep 17, 2024

It's no longer available, and is extremely old. Why not use the current version?