Comments on: CS3 PDF Queue Stops

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:43:09 +0000

actually, I guess it was Jonas’ fix, but it does not work on my new iMac. Please help!!

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:41:36 +0000

I tried Ryan’s fix and it worked great when I upgraded to leopard on my powerbook G4, but i just got a new iMac and the fix does not work on this machine. Is there an update that works on the new computers? It’s running leopard 10.5.6

By: dustin

dustin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:35:55 +0000

Jonas & Ryan,

Had the same issue, and Adobe can’t help at all. They’re clueless. I did the Terminal cut/paste because I know nothing of command line stuff. Acrobat 8 now prints, but the jobs themselves still ’stop’ and don’t delete themselves, even though I’m getting the PDF files I need.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks!!!

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:30:53 +0000

You guys rock. Thanks

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:39:01 +0000

this also works for using acrobat 7 in leapord
all I did was modify the pdf700 instead – now able to use acrobat 7 again in leapord – thank you Jonas!

sudo chown root:staff /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf700

sudo chmod u=rwx,go= /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf700

By: Jonas Mächler

Jonas Mächler — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:22:39 +0000

Another solution for a stoping Adobe PDF 8.0 Print driver:
Change the file permission of the file
“/usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800″ to owner root and -rwx——

this is done by the following two commands which have to be executed in the Terminal:

sudo chown root:staff /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800

sudo chmod u=rwx,go= /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800

Terminal for dummies:
just open the Terminal and copy/paste the first of the two lines and press enter, then you will be promted to enter your password, do so and press enter again(you won’t see your password, but it works anyway)
and then to the same with the second line and then the Adobe PDF 8.0 Printer should be fixed