Restore lost Adobe PDF printer after Archive and Install

Sep 15, '05 09:34:00AM

Contributed by: ptwithy

Once again, I lost my Adobe PDF printer by doing an Archive and Install. In case this happens to anyone else who needs to print to Distiller, this old hint from the Adobe forums is still relevant:

  1. Quit Acrobat and Print Center if they are running.
  2. Delete the AdobePDF.app application that's installed in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/
  3. Launch Acrobat 6. You will be prompted to authenticate the installer by entering your password.
  4. Launch Print Center and verify that Adobe PDF has been added to the printer list.
On one machine that I upgraded, I had to restart before Adobe PDF showed up as a printer.

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