When I installed Acrobat X Pro, it added the "Adobe PDF" toolbar to my version of IE and I have tested it and it works. I also have "Save As PDF" in Microsoft Word and I presume in the other apps I selected during installation.
But, I don't have a printer named "Adobe PDF Converter" that uses the special PDF printer port and allows me to generate PDF from less intelligent applications that only understand they can output to a printer.
I tried invoking the Control Panel->Change a Program to attempt to repair my installation, and could not get this printer installed.
I tried to use Devices and Printers->Add a Printer->Add a local printer->Existing port->Documents\*.pdf (Adobe PDF).
Because so many choices come up for "Driver", I tried virtually all of them, including the installed "Adobe PDF Converter Version: 9.5.0.0 [8/19/2010]", "Adobe PDF Converter Version: 9.8.0.0 [3/25/2013]", trying Windows Update, and trying most of the drivers (including the 6th and 7th in the list) after browsing to [Adobe Program x86 Folder]\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF\AdobePDF.inf.
The error I receive is inevitably something like "Printer driver was not installed. Unable to find a core driver package that is required by the printer driver package. <OK>". Sometimes, this message comes with the error code 0x00000bc8.
Can anyone help?