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I entirely agree, Branislav, that the Adobe product teams need to provide better information about what will and will not work when a new OS version is released.

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First create a PostScript file, and then process it through Distiller to create the PDF file.

If your printer requests that you use the largely outmoded workflow of creating PDF using Distiller, you’ll have to use the old method.

(If I get information on workarounds to solve these crashes, I’ll post it here.) There are other reports of this in a thread on the Adobe Acrobat Mac forum. Today, it’s failing in the PDF creation process with a crash. On one of my computers where I installed Snow Leopard, the feature worked a couple of days ago.

Inevitably, since this is a new feature (and I suspect not very well tested), there are glitches.

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If you install Acrobat 9 Pro new in Snow Leopard, and immediately upgrade to the current version (9.1.3), the Adobe PDF 9.0 print is not installed.

Select the printer “Adobe PDF 9.0” and click the minus (-) sign. To do so, choose Apple > System Preferences > Print & Fax.

If you upgrade from Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6), the Adobe PDF Printer installed by Acrobat 9 Pro is not removed.

Acrobat 9.0 and earlier didn’t have this new capability.

For this new feature to work, you must upgrade to Acrobat 9.1.3, the current version (or at least Acrobat 9.1).

It does so via native PDF transcoding - no Postscript here!! So we still provide a method for creation of Adobe-quality PDFs, but it’s FASTER and MORE reliable! With Snow Leopard, you now have a new PDF Workflow entry (the things in the PDF menu in the print dialog) called ‘Adobe PDF’ which will convert the Apple-based PDF into an Adobe-based PDF using your supplied/chosen Job Options.

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It’s just as well, as that print path (of PDF->PS->PDF) is REALLY SLOW and full of a HUGE number of bugs for many years now that we couldn’t fix due to how the Apple printing system works. In a nutshell, Snow Leopard no longer supports the necessary OS features we need to install a Distiller-based printer.

Why the change? An Adobe TechNote provides a brief explanation: “Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6)’s enhanced security features prevent Adobe’s PDF Printer from functioning as it did in previous versions.” Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe’s PDF guru, provides additional details: More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.Īfter making your choice, you’ll be prompted for a name for your PDF file and a location to save the file. Alternatively, you had to choose the PDF setting in Distiller ahead of time. (When you used the Adobe PDF Printer, you needed to discover that you had to choose “PDF Options” from the unlabelled popup menu in the dialog to make these choices.

It appears in the PDF menu at the bottom of the Print dialog.Ĭhoosing this option opens a dialog where you can select an Adobe PDF setting and choose to launch Acrobat or another PDF reader. What you need to know is that in Snow Leopard, the Acrobat team replaced the functionality of the Adobe PDF printer with an Automator function in the Print dialog called Save as Adobe PDF. For example, an early poster in the Adobe Acrobat Mac forum reported:Īttempting to print to PDF via Adobe PDF 9.0 printer/driver causes the printer/driver to fire up and the progress windows indicates that distiller launches, but after that, the prompt for where to save the PDF to never appears and the file in the print queue disappears. But the Adobe PDF Printer installed by Acrobat Pro isn’t working.

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You’ve purchased a copy of the new Mac OS X version, Snow Leopard (10.6), and installed it on your computer.