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:

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

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