Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) & Windows 7 x64 PDF Printer

So many of you are probably using the new Windows 7 beta that’s available from Microsoft. If you’re using Windows 7 x64 (64-bit) and have installed Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) you’ll notice that the Adobe PDF printer has not be installed. This may apply to previous versions of the Adobe Creative Suite as well. From what I also understand, this fix works for Vista x64 (64-bit) as well. If you’re missing your PDF printer, please continue reading to learn more.

• Click your Start Button and select Control Panel
• Select Devices and Printers
• Select Add a printer
• Select Add a local printer
• Check Use an existing port and select Documents/*.pdf (Adobe PDF) from the drop down. Click Next
• Click the Have Disk… button
• Click the Browse… button
• Navigate to C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Acrobat 9.0/Acrobat/Xtras/AdobePDF
• Select AdobePDF.inf from the list, then click the OK button
• You will see many Adobe PDF Converters in the list, however count six down from the top and click Next
• Name your printer, in my case I named mine Adobe PDF
• Follow the rest of the prompts

The 32-bit of Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not have this problem. Happy PDF’ing