If none of the above worked, just drop us an email attaching the not-so-enlightening debug messages in your shell window, we will try to figure out what is happening. Take a look at those messages and see if there is some enlightening information that can explain what is the issue. You will find two files called pdfsam.sh for Linux systems and pdfsam.bat for Windows systems, run/double-click the one for your system, a shell/ Command Prompt window will open, PDFsam Basic will try to start and a number of debug messages will show up in the shell window. If that didn’t solve the issue you can try running PDFsam Basic using a startup script we provide in the bin subdirectory. We do all sorts of checks during the installation process and during the startup of the application to make sure we inform the user if Java 8 is missing but there might be some exotic case we missed, so first thing try upgrading Java to its latest version. Is to make sure a Java Runtime version 8 or above is correctly installed on your machine (Java 8 is a requirement given PDFsam Basic is written in Java). You can install our free PDF printer and convert any file to PDF simply by sending it to the virtual PDF printer.Sometimes it can happen that PDFsam Basic doesn’t start and there is no error message or anything that could help you understand what is the issue. The Create module of PDFsam Enhanced provides a free alternative to the Adobe PDF printer.

If you are hoping to find the virtual PDF printer in Adobe Reader you are out of luck, the virtual printer has only been available as part of Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro or an installation of Adobe FrameMaker In order to use Adobe’s virtual PDF printer it is therefore necessary to install Acrobat DC and have a Standard ( current monthly plan is 28,05€ ) or Pro ( current monthly plan is 30,45€) subscription.

Download Adobe PDF printerĪdobe PDF printer is included in Acrobat DC (Standard and Pro) and cannot be downloaded separately.

Adobe PDF printer is the virtual PDF printer provided by Adobe and included in the Acrobat DC package that allows you to convert virtually any file to PDF.

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