NET Framework 4+ (the installation will attempt to install.

PowerShell v2+ (Not PowerShell Core yet though)(minimum is v3 for install from this website due to TLS 1.2 requirement).

I still don't know what the precise issue was, but it SEEMED to be related to a Windows User Access permissioning for files within that Temp folder that were cleared out when I ran Disk Cleanup. It also continued to work after the aforementioned reboots. However, immediately after clearing the Temporary Files the print to PDF issue went away. In my case it (seemed to ) force a Windows update that wouldn't complete until shutting the computer off during the update that was 'stuck' on 100% and subsequently booting into safe mode with networking and then rebooting again. Clearing the Temporary Files MAY cause other issues, so use caution and backup accordingly before trying this. Specifically, it was the 'Temporary Files' that needed to be cleaned up. It was the Windows 7 'Disk Cleanup' tool.

(there were a NUMBER of things I tried based on those support pages before discovering the below, which I've omitted) However, that error was one that was documented on the support pages for that software and one of the possible fixes that was recommended ended up solving this issue for me. Ultimately, what put me on the right path (and there is NO NEED for others to do this) is installing a different PDF rendering software (trial version) which ALSO returned an error when attempting to render the PDF using the Print to PDF function.

Changing drivers for the Adobe PDF printer.

Deleting and manually installing the Adobe PDF Printer.

Uninstalling/reinstalling ScanSnap Manager software (re-installed with no issues).uninstalling/reinstalling acrobat and then updating acrobat.At the point in the scanning process when the PDF would usually be rendered, the ScanSnap software returned a 'Failed to communicate with the ScanSnap' error box and the PDF was not created. Additionally, in my case the print jobs were stuck in the print spooler and couldn't be cancelled and deleted from there using the options available in the print queue dialog (but they could be deleted by stopping the spooler service and manually deleting the items in the print queue).Īn additional symptom (that I later found was related to this issue) is that I was unable to scan to PDF using my Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 scanner. I was experiencing similar symptoms as described by OP with the exception that I was able to close the 'Creating Adobe PDF' dialog by clicking the close button ('X') for the dialog box.

Snagit software to edit pdf doc