WHY THE F@#@ do I pay for this crap??? I paid for Acrobat Pro so I could create PDFs using the printer utility without having to take extra steps. OS developers are jackasses.

Any suggestions, please?

Acrobat Distiller 9.3.0
Started: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Adobe PostScript software version: 3018.101
CID support library initialization completed.

Error in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX4 2008.joboptions:
/CheckCompliance out of range
Distilling: Madness R3.eps
Start Time: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Source: /Users/christyphelps/Documents/Tay/Flyers/Basketball/March Madness R3.eps
Destination: /Users/christyphelps/Documents/March Madness R3.pdf
Adobe PDF Settings: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/PDFX1a 2001(2).joboptions

PDF/X Compliance Report

1. PDF Compatibility

[Violation] The PDF Compatibility Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5) is not permitted for PDF/X compliant PDF files.

2. Summary

Warnings: The total found in this document was 0.
Violations: The total found in this document was 1.

This document does not pass PDF/X-1a:2001 compliance checks.

%%[ Warning: Did not pass PDF/X compliance tests. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Distill Time: 584 seconds (00:09:44)
**** End of Job ****

Help?

I don’t even know what a ppd is, much less where to put it, but I downloaded what was linked… I’ll try anything at this point, short of human sacrifice.

I installed 9.0.0, then manually downloaded the update to 9.1.0 and ran it. This added the much wanted “Save as Adobe PDF” menu item. From there on Acrobat will update itself to 9.3.1 again, but the option stays there.

Bottom line: the options ONLY seems to get installed when updating from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0.
Directly updating to latest/greatest will NOT work.

Pretty counter intuitive, but at least I know what to do now….

thanks for your bug report. Sorry for your trouble, it looks like the installer I cobbled together is to blame for this. I’ve improved it, you can now run the INSTALL.command using a Finder double-click and it will actually find its files.

I haven’t had any feedback regarding Acrobat 9 or non-US installations, but I think it should work since the whole thing is really quite primitive.

Regards,
Robert

I’m very glad to see, that someone is trying to fix this unbelieveable Adobe vs. Snowleopard situation.

Unfortunately your solution didn’t work. I’m using 10.6.2 and Acrobat 9.
I copied the ADPDF9.PPD back to the suggested location. After the first try, I copied pdf900 and PDFAgent manually to the described locations and let the script run a second time. But still no success. Below you can find what I got in terminal running your script. I hope this helps in finding a solution.

Last login: Fri Feb 19 08:13:48 on ttys000
/Users/zisch/Downloads/10-02-17/pdfagent-0/INSTALL.sh ; exit;
Bottlerocket:~ zisch$ /Users/zisch/Downloads/10-02-17/pdfagent-0/INSTALL.sh ; exit;
Please enter your Acrobat version (7, 8, or 9):
9
Locating the original pdf900 backend in /Applications. Please stand by…
Found the backend at /Applications/AddOns/Grafik/Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/SelfHealFiles/AdobePDFPrinter/pdf900

Installing new backend as /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf900
Backing up original file to /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf900.old
Password:
install: backend: No such file or directory
Copying PDFAgent to /Library/Application Support/PDFAgent
install: PDFAgent: No such file or directory
Creating /Library/LaunchAgents/net.busysignal.PDFAgent.plist
sed: net.busysignal.PDFAgentN.plist: No such file or directory

Starting PDFAgent
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /Library/LaunchAgents/net.busysignal.PDFAgent.plist
launchctl: no plist was returned for: /Library/LaunchAgents/net.busysignal.PDFAgent.plist
nothing found to load

If the PDF printer is missing from your printer list, you need to create it.

First, you need to locate the file ADPDF9.PPD. This may either be in a backup or on your original Acrobat CD.
Second, you need to copy this file to /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources using the command:
sudo cp ADPDF9.PPD /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources
Third, you need to recreate the printer queue using:
sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p “AdobePDF9″ -v “pdf900://distiller/” -P “/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ADPDF9.PPD” -E -D “Adobe PDF 9.0″
logout

[Prozess beendet]

I was able to make very small files (800K) from my Quark files (20 MB) before I upgraded to Snow Leopard and now the smallest I can get my InDesign files down to is about 2 MBs which is not enough for my purposes.

Can anyone help me figure out how to crunch these files down more? I have about 3 font families I’ve embedded, each with the typical faces: normal, bold, italic, bold italic.

Reduce File Size and PDF Optimizer have already been used on these files…are there any other settings or plugins or other options besides totally deleting the photos out of the document that would make them smaller?

I (or rather: my Mac users – I am running Acrobat on Windows myself) am also experiencing problems.

I have installed a fresh & clean 10.6 system, upgraded that to 10.6.2, then installed CS4 from the two DVDs (I won’t start a rant about the totally crap deployment tools for CS4).

Now there is a shiny “Adobe PDF 9.0″ printer – which does not work and should be deleted. Done.

Thing is, from the Print menu, the PDF button display the pulldown menu, only there is no “Save as Adobe PDF” option

Any idea how to get that menu option.

Right now I have removed the stuff that did not work, and the stuff that should work is not there….