AdobePDFPDE700 - delete it

Setup: Mac OS X 10.5. Adobe CS4, upgraded from CS2.

Every time I printed to PDF, I got the Save As... dialogue twice. My first solution was to remove the Adobe PDF 9.0 printer. It seems silly that it would affect print to PDF within Mac OS X, but that seems to be the case.


Then, after some wild guesses and a strange error message with AdobePDFPDE700 in the print dialogue of TextEdit, I opened /Library/Printers/PPDPlugins/ and deleted the file AdobePDFPDE700.plugin.

I then opened Adobe Acrobat and went to the menu Help > Repair Acrobat Installation. In the dialogue that came up, I checked Adobe PDF Printer. (I kept the Adobe PDFViewer Safari Plugin unchecked, to keep Safari clean of Adobe interference.)

I then clicked on Continue, followed the instructions, and now everything seems to work well.

Now everything seems to work fine.