Print to Adobe PDF no longer works (need to reset Adobe PDF please)

[Acsheff]

In Acrobat DC, I've been using for years, used to print to Adobe PDF just fine (easiest way to get decent flattening or cherry picking pages out of a long doc). Now when I click the print button it brings up a dialog that says it's trying to print a ".ps" file. I don't know what that file is but its not a pdf so it's wrong. I have no idea what changed. I have tried deleting the Acrobat preferences folder to make it generate a new one but that doesn't do it. I would really love if there was just a way to reset all Adobe PDF settings to factory default. I'm a little desperate as I use this function all the time and I really don't have the time to dig through myriad levels of settings.

[Acsheff]

Edit: print to Adobe PDF works in all other apps. It has only stopped working in Acrobat.

(apparently you can't edit posts here? rather odd/annoying...)

[ZBalling]

.ps is postscript, it a format that was used before PDF was created.

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

In the Acrobat print dialog, press Advanced and make sure that the Print to file option is not selected. That is normally what would cause this symptom to occur.

[Acsheff]

Oh wow, thank you so much! I knew it would be something super simple I was overlooking. The button is maybe a tad misleading as I want to print to a pdf "file" so I didn't think anything of that box. But thanks!

Cheers!

Aaron