Adobe Reader 9.1 Cannot print - No pages were selected

Report · Mar 16, 2009

When trying to print a PDF on a new Dell PC using Windows XP, sp3, I get a message in a window that says Document cannot be printed. Click ok and the next message is No pages were selected to print. The All button is selected and the message stays the same.

Report · Sep 30, 2010

I will be out of the office starting 9/15/2010, and returning on

10/4/2010. In case of an emergency, please contact Mary Struchen at the

agency, Barb Peterson or David Taylor at the bank, and they will contact

Ted if necessary for assistance. Thank you.

>>> clearspace-1990071839-629720-2-3174279 09/30/10 04:31 >>>

From your printer control panel, select another default printer and see

if the error occurs.

If it doesn't try reinstalling printer/updating printer driver.

Else post back here..

Report · Sep 30, 2010

Thanks SirPsycho1977.

I'm at the office and here is only one network printer (Konica Minolta 350/250/200 PCL) connected. I have a Microsoft XPS Document Writer loaded. I made this the default but it didn't help. Same problem.

Can you recommend a driver. The current one is PCL version 02.0

Report · Sep 30, 2010

I will be out of the office starting 9/15/2010, and returning on

10/4/2010. In case of an emergency, please contact Mary Struchen at the

agency, Barb Peterson or David Taylor at the bank, and they will contact

Ted if necessary for assistance. Thank you.

>>> clearspace-1990071839-629720-2-3174342 09/30/10 04:54 >>>

Thanks SirPsycho1977.

I'm at the office and here is only one network printer (Konica Minolta

350/250/200 PCL) connected. I have a Microsoft XPS Document Writer

loaded. I made this the default but it didn't help. Same problem.

Can you recommend a driver. The current one is PCL version 02.0

Report · Sep 30, 2010

Tried downgrading. I installed Adobe Reader 8.2. Halfway through got a message: "You already have a more functional version installed. Installation will now terminate." BUWAAAAHAHAHA!!! More like non-functional! Thought it would automatically uninstal 9 and instal 8.

I will now first uninstal v9 and instal the v8. Wish me luck.

Report · Sep 30, 2010

I will be out of the office starting 9/15/2010, and returning on

10/4/2010. In case of an emergency, please contact Mary Struchen at the

agency, Barb Peterson or David Taylor at the bank, and they will contact

Ted if necessary for assistance. Thank you.

>>> clearspace-1990071839-629720-2-3174381 09/30/10 05:19 >>>

Tried downgrading. I installed Adobe Reader 8.2. Halfway through got a

message: "You already have a more functional version installed.

Installation will now terminate." BUWAAAAHAHAHA!!! More like

non-functional! Thought it would automatically uninstal 9 and instal 8.

I will now first uninstal v9 and instal the v8. Wish me luck.

Report · Sep 30, 2010

I will be out of the office starting 9/15/2010, and returning on

10/4/2010. In case of an emergency, please contact Mary Struchen at the

agency, Barb Peterson or David Taylor at the bank, and they will contact

Ted if necessary for assistance. Thank you.

>>> clearspace-1990071839-629720-2-3174276 09/30/10 04:21 >>>

I'm having the same problem with Adobe Reader 9 (9.3.4) BUT in my case

there is NO error message at all. The whole system freezes. It freezes

when I click the Print Icon, it freezes when I click FILE > Print SetUp

/ Print , it freezes when I open the thumbnail icon, right-click the

page and try to print. What else can I do? I did everything this forum

suggested, uninstalled, re-installed, repair, etc.

The program doesn't respond at all.

All other programs (Word, Excel) print perfectly. I have Windows XP/SP3.

http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/43074/AdobeError.jpg

PLEASE HELP????!!!!

Report · Sep 30, 2010

i received this email. I'm not sure why. it doesn't seem to relate to my

problem.

gjbrns1

g j barnes

Report · Sep 30, 2010

I will be out of the office starting 9/15/2010, and returning on

10/4/2010. In case of an emergency, please contact Mary Struchen at the

agency, Barb Peterson or David Taylor at the bank, and they will contact

Ted if necessary for assistance. Thank you.

>>> clearspace-1990071839-629720-2-3174372 09/30/10 05:07 >>>

i received this email. I'm not sure why. it doesn't seem to relate to my

problem.

gjbrns1

g j barnes

Report · Mar 17, 2011

For Mac users: I had this problem. My solution is to open up the "Preview" application and open the document through that application. No problems printing from Preview.

Report · Apr 07, 2011

This error message, which I received on both Adobe Reader 9.1 and 10.0, seems to come from a variety of causes. In my case, the cause was trying to print a pdf that was created directly from a scanner using an old version of Acrobat Professional (6.0). In fact, I got a warning when opening that pdf that there was "Insufficient data for an image." My fix was to rescan the document as a jpg, then use Acrobat Professional 6.0 to convert it to a pdf. The new versions of Adobe Reader could then open/print the document without difficulty.

Report · Feb 03, 2016

Thank GOD for you hastymaestro!!!! - I've just spent two hours nearly doing my head in with this problem, and your solution finally worked - Hallelujah!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Report · Apr 29, 2011

I had this problem relatively recently and only when printing from adobe reader. Since I can print from other applications I tried printing pdfs from photoshop CS3 which I happened to have installed. The document printed without any problems. That makes me think something in Adobe Reader in a relatively recent update must have caused my problems. I'm currently on version 9.4.4. I'm using Windows 7 prof 64 bit and have the latest driver installed for my hp laserjet p2055dn printer. Using Photoshop isn't a permanent answer but it did get me out of trouble. I'm going to try to find a free alternative to Reader now.

Report · Apr 29, 2011

Apologies to all, I hadn't realised that Reader was now in v10 so I uninstalled v9.4.4, freshly installed v10 and I can now print from Reader.

Report · Jun 06, 2011

I just encountered the same error with Adobe Reader X. It resulted from me disabling "Client for Microsoft Networks" on the LAN connection whilst investigating a network issue. Re-enabled "Client for Microsoft Networks" and I can again print PDFs from Reader X.

I didn't believe it, so disabling stopped Reader X printing again, re-enabling it started.

What is the connection here?

Report · Jun 08, 2011

Hi there .....sorry I'm not an expert. I put my experience on the forum in case it helped anyone. I think there are so many permutations of pc build and software versions that it is not possible to find one solution for all.

Regards

David

Report · Sep 01, 2011

Guys, Girls:

I encountered exactly this same problem today - "The document could not be printed. There were no pages selected."

It took me about 3 minutes to fix it. It appears to me that this problem actually has very little (if anything) to do with Adobe products, and everything to do with correct selection of the "Default Printer" within the Windows OS.

I'm using Windows 7 Pro. I went to the 'Devices and Printers' menu, selected the printer that I wanted to print the PDF to (by this, I mean the conventional paper printer), selected 'Printer Properties' from the right-click menu, and then pressed the 'Print a Test Page' button. Nothing printed, so, I launched the Printer Troubleshooter that comes with Windows.

Seems that I had updated the driver for the (paper) printer, and the wrong driver was active. I re-selected the paper printer that I wanted to print my PDF to, set that as the 'Default Printer', and printed a test page - this time the test page printed. I then went back into the Adobe PDF application and selected the print command again - this time, my PDF printed out on paper as I wanted it to.

So, bottom line, I think the cause of this problem is inappropriate selection (configuration) of the default printer in the Windows operating system. I recommend that anyone having this "The document could not be printed. There were no pages selected." problem first try to print a page from some other application (WordPad, NotePad, Microsoft Word, whatever) and see if your printer works from that other application. If not, then you will know it is a printer selection problem, not an Acrobat problem.

Michael

Report · Nov 03, 2012

OSX 10.8.2

Adobe Reader 11.0.0

Brother HL-1440 series printer

Solution:

In the print dialog click "Advanced"

Check the box "Print as Image"

Report · Jul 31, 2013

If the printer is working for all other jobs, right click on the page in acrobat reader and select print. That is the way it worked for me.

Report · Oct 08, 2013

Having tried all suggested solutions with no luck, I downloaded Foxit reader and hey presto I could print it from that very quickly without any problems. I would rather not have put more software on my system but could not waste anymore time trying to print one 2 page document.

Report · Feb 05, 2014

I have solved this problem by the following action:

What i noticed was that in my PDF there were some strange symbols, that weren't recognized by my system.

In my case it was within a BOM-list on the drawing.

Once i deleted these symbols and generated a new PDF, i was able to print.

I hope this works for some of you.

Birger

Report · Mar 11, 2014

OSX 10.8.5
Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.8
I just today had that same frustrating message appear when I tried to print. I closed the app and reopened which prompted me to re-enter the serial code and sign-in with my adobe ID again. (btw, this happens because when I installed Adobe CC, I used a different Adobe ID then with the Adobe CS6 install...so the conflict occasionally requires the serial code to be re-entered). Anyway, mine works fine now. Thought maybe this information could help some of you.

Report · Jul 01, 2014

In my case all PDF were printing except couple of them which were created through AutoCAD software. I resolved the issue by Optimizing the PDF files via Adobe Acrobat Professional. File>Save As> and selecting Optimized PDF.

One more way of going around this problem was to open PDF in Google Chrome by dragging and dropping it to Chrome browser and using Chrome's print feature.

Probable cause in my case was "Unrecognizable Text or Symbols" in one or more of the layers in the document.

Hope it helps, Cheers

Report · Jan 13, 2016

Print as image was greyed out. What worked was using Chrome instead of Firefox.

Report · Feb 16, 2016

I have the same problem, on Mac OS. It is quite disappointing actually, as upgrade should not require reinstalling or disabling other devices for the purpose of printing. It does work when you specify it as an 'image', but I guess it should not be necessary for a 'soft tool' i.e. Adobe.

Report · Aug 11, 2016

same issue - nothing would print from version 10 Adobe reader, but prints OK from WORD and Excel.

deleted the adobe version 10 install, and then installed an older version 9 from

http://www.oldapps.com/adobe_reader.php?app=F41AA5DEC8C9137B2FF4174EC47D8129

and now the adobe files print fine, no problem.

Must be something wrong in the version 10.....

My OS is WIndows 7 ultimate, with service pack 1.