I have tried to use the Adobe PDF 8.0 printer but all it does is send the info to the printer and then the Queue stops. I have had a look at other forums and tried everything like deleting the printer and then going into acrobat and repairing it and repairing privileges. Still none of this works... I have run out of ideas.
I did note that in the Acrobat Professional manual that it mentions the following:
> n the pop-up menu below the Presets menu, choose PDF Options, and set any of the following options:
Now my print windows don't have this option or as latter described in the manual an option in the driver to change the PDF preset. I'm wondering if I am missing something. If somebody could please help it would be much appreciated.
Well I have not had any problems with any other printers of mine... Just the Acrobat PDF. Its not saving anything to the desktop. also the queue stops and the file is still listed in the queue.
Is distiller meant to open when it runs this printer? because it isn't.
Distiller does open in the background but you will not see it.
Patch up to Acrobat 8.1 and then if the problem persists try resetting
your entire print system and then running the 'Repair' option under
Acrobat / Help
Acrobat is already patched up to 8.1 (the printer still shows as Adobe PDF 8.0 though). How do you reset the entire print system? do you mean delete all the printers and reload them?
Tim, I tried resetting the print system as described at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301185 then following Jon's instructions in post #4 but it didn't work.
Just tried the reset... No love. And I dont have any anti virus or firewall software running on the machine. If nobody has a solution what would be my next step. I need to get it running.
FIXED IT!!!<br /><br />I worked out that all the problems came down to a single file in my preferences: ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.print.AdobePDF8/com.adobe.print.AdobePDF8.Defaults.xml<br /><br />now I opened it up and compared it to a version that was working...<br /><br />>** Excerpt from not working version **<br /><br />><dict><br /> <key>com.adobe.print.AdobePDF.PrintSettings.PDFJobOptionsPath</key><br /> <string>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/Test(1).joboptions</string><br /><br />>** Excerpt from working version **<br /><br />><dict><br /> <key>com.adobe.print.AdobePDF.PrintSettings.PDFJobOptionsPath</key><br /> <string>default</string><br /><br />I think what was going on was that the printer was trying to print to job options that either dont exist or dont work... It would stop the queue and also the printer didnt even have any PDF setting in the print dialog box. Now it works fine.<br /><br />So all you would have to do is delete the file, delete the printer from the print manager and then repair the printer from Acrobat and I should work fine!
In order to get my adobe pdf 8.0 driver fixed I had to change the file permission of the file
"/usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800" to owner root and -rwx------
this is done by the following two commands which have to be executed in the Terminal:
Terminal for dummies:
just open the Terminal and copy/paste the first of the two lines and press enter, then you will be asked to enter your password, do so and press enter again(you won't see your password, but it works anyway)
and then to the same with the second line and then the Adobe PDF 8.0 Printer should be fixed
I had this problem with Acrobat 8.1 and Leopard on iMac 24" core duo late 2007.
I tried all the above plus a few other approaches with no success. In searching the forums on the net I have found that some think the problem is a conflict between Distiller and Leopard that will be fixed in the next iteration of Acrobat.
I got a partial solution working when I went to the ~/Library/Preferences/com.Adobe.print.AdobePdf8 folder and re-linked the two aliases found in the alias folder.
In the end I found this and it works! http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx
It's a CUPs-pdf installer that allows you to add a cups-pdf printer to your printer list. It works beautifully and will certainly do until the problem is fixed by Adobe.
If your using
Leopard OSX.5.x you dead in the water until some time in Jan 2008.
Seems That Adobe and Apple are having a hard time deciding what go broken and how.
Adobe will fix the problem in a 8.2 release.
In the mean time go Print when print menu comes up choose create PDF. I think there are a selection of types when you click and hold Create PDF button.
Once created Acrobat can manipulate the Pdf as needed.
I've tried Tim's solution above with no success (CS3/Leopard).
Then i immediately tried Jonas' one, did not remove the existing printer or restart or anything. I just moved back to Illustrator and re-printed my document, and ka-boom, it worked for me. So thanks a lot, Jonas! 😉 Let's just hope it sticks...
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800 is a stop gap measure until a true fix comes from Adobe. You still get the printer pausing the queue, but the pdf gets generated and left of your desktop
I am having the same problem, but do not know how to fix it. I am sorry, but I am not that advanced. I am using Vista with Acrobat 8.1. I can not print to a PDF the print job shows in my queue, but nothing happens. Just like Described by Tim. I deleted the printer and repaired it but nothing. I have no idea how to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800 worked for me too.
The printer gets paused after the job finishes but the pdf gets created. Thanks to everyone who posted!
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