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ACROBAT READER NOT PRINTING IN SIERRA

When I try to print from Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on my MacBook Pro Late 2011 running Sierra, I see a “There are no pages selected to print” error message – yet they print from Foxit Reader and PDF Reader Pro Free, and from my Mac mini. Unlike Acrobat, those programs can’t open some PDFs, so how can I print the ones that I need to from that app?

Some people find that disabling Enhanced Security within Acrobat Reader’s preferences fixes this error. Others work around it by printing to JPEG image files, then printing those using another app, which is a chore. But for some, no matter what they try, the error persists.

It’s almost certainly a problem specific to Sierra, resulting from its new PDFKit library, which has broken many apps. Some bugs have been fixed in successive updates to the initial release of 10.12, but this particular one with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC seems to have persisted on certain models of Mac.

Until Apple and Adobe address the issue