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December 31, 2016
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Error Message: Adobe PDF Settings file read error in :C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\Standard.joboptions

  • December 31, 2016
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Hi, I have downloaded Adobe DC Pro trial version and installed in my Notebook, when I try to print and create a PDF file using MS word 2016 and other browsers application to print, I get the following error:

"Adobe PDF Settings file read error in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\Standard.joboptions".

And my notebook freezes up with the repeating non-stop above error messages ? 

I’ve also search Google and found the following suggestions :

  1. Changed the Windows 10 region setting “Decimal” symbol
  2. Deleted the “Standard.joboptions” (*suspects this file corrupted) and replace a copy of this file from another Notebook.

But the problem of the error still exists?

Kindly could anyone help to provide a good solution?

Thank you and Best Regards.Sta

TWL

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Although I would agree not to print to Adobe PDF as problematic (unless you have EPS graphics in the original Word document), Microsoft's built-in “save as PDF” is fundamentally flawed in many ways. And if you use the Acrobat Save as Adobe PDF feature, this problem associated with the Standard joboptions will likely still be a problem.

This read error for the Standard joboptions indicates a fundamental problem in either the installation of Acrobat or perhaps in the user's file system with regards to permissions and/or access privileges.

To the original poster, what type of access privileges do you have when you are using Acrobat? Administrator, limited user, what? And was Acrobat installed as an Administrator?

          - Dov

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Anonymous
January 9, 2017

Hill, this is TWL5732 again, kindly anyone could help to provide a good suggestion for the above problem, thank you and best regards.

Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2017

Don't print to Adobe PDF. Use the conversion in MS Word.

Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
January 10, 2017

Although I would agree not to print to Adobe PDF as problematic (unless you have EPS graphics in the original Word document), Microsoft's built-in “save as PDF” is fundamentally flawed in many ways. And if you use the Acrobat Save as Adobe PDF feature, this problem associated with the Standard joboptions will likely still be a problem.

This read error for the Standard joboptions indicates a fundamental problem in either the installation of Acrobat or perhaps in the user's file system with regards to permissions and/or access privileges.

To the original poster, what type of access privileges do you have when you are using Acrobat? Administrator, limited user, what? And was Acrobat installed as an Administrator?

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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