Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Adobe PDF Printer on Windows 7

Apparently Adobe Professional's Adobe Converter printer does not install cleanly on Windows 7. To manually install the printer, I did the following:

  1. Start > Control Panel > View Devices and Printers
  2. Add a Printer
  3. Add a Local Printer
  4. Create a new port
  5. Named it AdobePDF
  6. If Drivers auto populate, select Adobe PDF Converter, else
  7. Click "Have Disk"
  8. Browse to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobatx.x\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF
  9. Click any of the Adobe PDF Converters
  10. Click "Use the driver that is currently installed (recommended)"
  11. Name the Printer (I used the default "Adobe PDF Converter")
  12. Right-click on the printer > Printer Properties
  13. Go to Advanced tab
  14. Click "Print directly to the printer" so that it doesn't spool printing
And now it works as intended! Just another odd quirk with Windows 7...

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