Acrobat 8 does not create adobe pdf printer

sjunaidr said:

Helo
I have a severe problem, when installing Acrobat 8 in Win 7 x64, Acrobat 8 (Middle East version) does not create adobe Printer Port. If anyone has solution

Ok boss give this a whirl.

1. Open Control Panel, select Printers
2. Click Add a Printer
3. Click Add a local printer
4. Select Use an existing port (should be preselected), change the port to "Desktop \*.pdf" (Adobe PDF Port), click Next
5. On the next page, click Have Disk...
6. Click Browse and browse to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF (or wherever you have Acrobat installed), click OK.
7. It should now show a series of "Adobe PDF Converter" entries. Select the first one and click Next
8. Change the printer name if desired, uncheck the box to use it as a default printer, click Next
9. Do not print a test page, click Finish
10. Find your new printer in Printers. Right click on it and select Properties, Advanced
11. Click "Print directly to the printer", click OK

Let me know if it doesn't work.

You can always use an alternative PDF creator like CutePDF [www.cutepdf.com] or NitroPDF [www.nitropdf.com]. They do the same thing.

I follow the the above instruction for Windows 7 XP Prof 32 bit. It does install the pdf printer. However, when I print from Word, it does not create the pdf file.

I had similar problem with the "Desktop\*.pdf":

Please refer to the original post by Johnathan Lyman above.

Replace Step 9 with:
9a. Go to Control panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers
9b. Right click "Adobe PDF Converter" > Printer Properties
9c. Go to tab "Ports"
9d. [Add Port...] > [New Port Type...] > [Browse...] (to the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF (or wherever you have Acrobat installed))
9e. Select "Adobe PDF.inf" > [Open] > [OK]
9f. [New Port...] > [Close]
9g. If you don't see the "Desktop\*.pdf" in the list, close all windows
9h. Reopen Control panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers
9i. Right click "Adobe PDF Converter" > Printer Properties
9j. Go to tab "Ports"
9k. You should see "Desktop\*.pdf" in the list, check on it

Then, continue the step 10-11 of the original post by Johnathan Lyman.

Thank you Jonathan Lyman, your post really helped me :) So much that I decided to register just to give back and thank you.