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Installing Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on Windows 7

ChrisAl
Registered: Dec 7 2009
Posts: 2

I have installed Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on Windows 7. When printing from Office Word 2007, the print file appears in the Adobe printer box as an error.

What can I do?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Something I'd posted to the Acrobat u2u forum earlier may be helpful.

Information re: Window 7 and Adobe applications.

In general - Installing and using Windows 7 with Adobe applications.
[url=http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/508/cpsid_50853.php]For Adobe product operating system compatibility.[/url]
[url=http://www.adobe.com/support/OScompatibility.php]For Adobe Acrobat products.[/url]
[url=http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/faq/]FAQ[/url]

[i]"Do Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 require updates to be compatible with Windows 7?"[/i]
This states that Acrobat 9.2 and Adobe Reader 9.2 are required for compatibility with Windows 7.

Look over [i]"What about older versions of Acrobat and Windows 7"[/i] for upgrade information.

Keep in mind that the browser add-in that interfaces with Reader / Acrobat is placed when the Adobe application is installed.
So it too is bounded by the Reader / Acrobat version's compatibility with a given OS.

In short, if running Windows 7 & if Acrobat 9.2 and Adobe Reader 9.2 or better is not installed you can expect to encounter "issues".
Some may be addressed by work arounds; but, on the whole, I suspect that'd be a ramble in the briar patch.

fwiw, Adobe documentation identifies that Adobe only tested CS3 and CS4 for Windows 7 support.
Adobe notes that, while earlier releases of Acrobat or CS may install and may run in Windows 7 none of them were tested in Windows 7 by Adobe.
Nor will the earlier releases be "updated".

Be well..

Be well...