Acrobat 8 Trial overwrites Adobe PDF printer driver instance?

[Greg Thompson]

   How can you stop Acrobat from sending you those messages announcing there is
   an upgrade available? I have inadverdently installed it without thinking and
   then had registration problems similar to the ones described below
   Greg Thompson
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     From: "Dov Isaacs" <isaacs at adobe.com>
     To: "Yves Barbion" <yves.barbion at gmail.com>,
     <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
     Subject: RE: Acrobat 8 Trial overwrites Adobe PDF printer driver instance?
     Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:48:03 -0800
     >As I have written on this list and others, Acrobat is not
     >designed such that you may have parallel installation of
     >multiple versions of Acrobat and or mixed installations of
     >Acrobat and Reader on the same system while still allowing
     >for full functionality of all such versions. In addition,
     >you may find various types of crashes and anomalies.
     >
     >The proper way to handle a "test" of Acrobat 8 (for example)
     >when you currently have Acrobat 6 installed would be to
     >totally uninstall Acrobat 6, reboot, and install Acrobat 8.
     >If and when you wish to go "back" to Acrobat 6, totally
     >uninstall Acrobat 8, reboot, and fully reinstall Acrobat 6.
     >
     >No, I don't think this is ideal or even good. But that's
     >how it works, whether you or I like it or not! :-(
     >
     > - Dov
     >
     >
     >________________________________
     >
     > From: Yves Barbion
     > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:51 AM
     > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
     > Subject: OT: Acrobat 8 Trial overwrites Adobe PDF printer driver
     >instance?
     >
     >
     >
     > Hello FrameUsers,
     >
     > I had the following situation:
     >
     > 1. I have Acrobat 6 Professional up and running (with some
     >nice
     > Enfocus plug-ins).
     > 2. I want to give Acrobat 8 Professional a try, so I download
     >and
     > install it.
     > 3. During the installation, I get a warning telling me that
     >another
     > version of Acrobat is already installed on my pc. Indeed,
     >version 6. I don't
     > want to remove it, so I click the Ignore button.
     > 4. I play around with Acrobat 8 and discover the VERY nice
     >review
     > features.
     > 5. Next, I try to create a new PDF file (from FrameMaker) but
     >I get a
     > warning telling me that I have to activate Acrobat 8 first.
     >Hmmm!
     > 6. I check my Adobe PDF printer driver instance and see that
     >it has
     > been overwritten by Acrobat 8. Is this correct?
     > 7. I do want to upgrade to Acrobat 8, but later, so I still
     >need to be
     > able to create PDF files for my daily production work.
     > 8. I take a chance and reinstall Acrobat 6 (Repair). Towards
     >the end
     > of the installation procedure, I see that a new Adobe PDF
     >printer driver
     > instance is being created.
     > 9. I check the Adobe PDF printer driver instance and
     >reconfigure its
     > properties, taking into account Dov Isaacs' very helpful
     >recommendations.
     > 10. Everything works fine again.
     >
     > So this worked for me to have two versions of Acrobat "next to
     >each other"
     > on the same pc, but I understand that playing around with the
     >Adobe PDF
     > printer instance can be tricky business. Or is there a better
     >(safer) way to
     > do this, apart from installing these trial versions on a
     >dedicated "trial
     > pc", which you don't use for production work?
     >
     >
     > Best regards
     >
     >
     > --
     > Yves Barbion
     >
     >
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