Acrobat corrupsts Default Printer in Registry

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Acrobat 7.0.5 and 7.0.7 won't print giving error message "...first install a
printer..". Word and other apps print OK, but Main window of Outlook also
gives message ".. install default printer.." Printer looks OK in Printers &
Faxes window and has default check mark. Re-installing driver (Canon pixma
i5000) does not help. I found a KB article for Win 2000 which gives the fix:
install another printer (i.e. MS generic, text) make it the default, then
change default back to the desired (in my case Canon) printer. This fixes
the registry and all apps including Acrobat print fine (until the next
"upgrade of Acrobat?!). Adobe's site has no info about this.

Hope this helps someone,

Imre A. Csaszar
 
Imre said:
Acrobat 7.0.5 and 7.0.7 won't print giving error message "...first install a
printer..". Word and other apps print OK, but Main window of Outlook also
gives message ".. install default printer.." Printer looks OK in Printers &
Faxes window and has default check mark. Re-installing driver (Canon pixma
i5000) does not help. I found a KB article for Win 2000 which gives the fix:
install another printer (i.e. MS generic, text) make it the default, then
change default back to the desired (in my case Canon) printer. This fixes
the registry and all apps including Acrobat print fine (until the next
"upgrade of Acrobat?!). Adobe's site has no info about this.

Hope this helps someone,

Imre A. Csaszar
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This situation really should not happen but will occur when
a non-Adobe PDF plug-in attempts to hijack or replace parts
the Adobe application. Adobe Acrobat has a repair function;
repair Acrobat from its installation cdrom.
 
I agree this should not happen, but it hapened when Acrobat updated itself
from the web to 7.0.5 and again a few days ago when updating itself to 7.0.7.
There is no repair function on the CD since there is no CDROM! The Only
other PDF aware programs installed were Adobe Type Manager (a 4 year old
version) and PremierPro. I uninstalled ATM, with no change.

Imre
 
We are having firm wide printing problems with the latest version of Adobe
7.0.7. Anyone who has updated to this version, suddenly has had problems
sending largerpdf print jobs to the printer. Very often the job starts and
then hangs up, then never finishes. If I take the user back to 7.0 or 6.0,
the document prints fine. I don't know if it could be caused by this problem
that you have noticed, or a driver problem, but sure would like anyone else
having this problem to let me know if they have found a solution.
 
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