Ladies & Gents
I have come up with my solution. Adobe is no help and it seems that this problem has been a "feature" of the software for quite a few versions now
I bit the bullet and have bought another software package that acts as a printer to create pdf's - note; it doesn't allow reading/editing them post print (some editing can be done during the print), but for that I will still use my otherwise useless Adobe Acrobat v6
My software choice was the standard version of pdfFactory (
http://www.pdffactory.com/products/pdffactory/index.html). This one was the cheapest of the different titles I found that worked, but also had the most features. The line in product features list; "Easy server deployment: Install on a server as a shared printer for easy group or enterprise deployment", near literally brought a tear to my eye
Now in the aim of providing a non-biased choice for you all, there are some other software systems out there that also worked; Jaws pdf Creator (
http://www.jawspdf.com/pdf_creator/features.html) & pdf-Xchange (
http://www.docu-track.com/index.php?page=22) to list 2. CutePDF Writer (
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp) supposedly also works (I didn't try it myself), and is free - but you must also install ghostscript for the software to work, which I was not keen to do
To summise, this software now allows me to print pdf's via Windows Terminal Services (on a Server 2003 machine) when connected either over a LAN or the internet via remote desktop or TS Web Connection - WITHOUT having to have the Administrator logged on locally to the Server. You will still need to keep Acrobat installed to edit and view the created pdf's however, unless you choose one of the more expensive software versions (I say expensive, but all are still much cheaper than Acrobat itself)
Good luck all - and please Adobe (if you read this), fix the problem......
Ben
