Adobe PDF Printer and spool errors
I’m not exactly sure how or when it started happening, but whenever I would try to save a document as an Acrobat PDF document (or try to print to the Acrobat PDF printer), it would create the PDF document fine but leave me with errors in the printer queue that said it had failed to print. Deleting these entries would get rid of the errors and the printer icon from your system tray – a minor hassle.
I didn’t bother to deal with it for a while since I could just cancel the errored out jobs in my printer queue and not worry about it since the PDF would still be created, however I figured I would finally figure out the problem and try to fix it. Of course, searching on Adobe’s website turned up nothing of relevance, and a few websites I found just said to re-install the Adobe Acrobat PDF printer which was what I figured I should do anyways, so I did.
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