How to stop Adobe from opening automatically after printing to PDF

Question

Every time I "print to PDF" from anywhere, the document automatically opens in Adobe. How do i get this to stop happenng?

try67 · Accepted Answer

No because that doesnt apply to me. The print to PDF feature for me DOES work in all applications. I need it to stop OPENING AUTOMATICALLY in Adobe Acrobat Pro when i print to PDF.

Open the Printers & Scanners window, click "Adobe PDF" and then Manage, and Printer Preferences.

Under "Adobe PDF Settings" un-tick the box next to "View Adobe PDF results":

Dariustor · Answer

Hi,I had the same issue in Adobe Acrobat, which always opened the PDF documents I had just saved in Microsoft applications (e.g MS Word). I strongly dislike that this is the default option, as I consider I should have the choice to open my newly-exported PDFs or not.To disable this, I found the following:Open Adobe AcrobatNavigate to “Menu”, then “Preferences”Click on “General”At the end of the“Basic tools” section, deselect the option “Always open PDFs exported from MS Office.”Click on “OK” to apply the new settingsQuit all open Adobe and MS Office applications(before doing that, I had an issue where PDFs exported with MS Word would export twice per export request, and the second would always fail)The next time you use an MS Office app to export a document to PDF, Adobe Acrobat should not automatically open it.

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