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To be honest, expecting software that's as old as CS5.5 to work on a brand new operating system is somewhat unrealistic. That being said the current version of many of Adobe's CC titles aren't fully ready for Sierra yet and have weird bugs on that OS, so I would be unsurprised that something as old as CS5.5 would have issues too. ACPs are just users like you who spend a lot of time volunteering in the forums (and other parts of the community) trying to help other users.

The person you are talking to is not Adobe and isn't even an Adobe employee. Please take some responsibility and GET THIS SORTED OUT. With Snow Leopard, you now have a new PDF Workflow entry (the things in the “PDF” menu in the print dialog) called “Adobe PDF” which will convert the Apple-based PDF into an Adobe-based PDF using your supplied/chosen Job Options.I think it's wrong that you (Adobe) are basically washing your hands of the problem.

It’s just as well, as that print path (of PDF->PS->PDF) is REALLY SLOW and full of a HUGE number of bugs for many years now that we couldn’t fix due to how the Apple printing system works ?. In a nutshell, Snow Leopard no longer supports the necessary OS features we need to install a Distiller-based printer. To quote Adobe PDF expert Leonard Rosenthol (as quoted in Steve Werner's InDesign Secrets post, referenced above): Use the 'Save As Adobe PDF' option under 'PDF' in the OS X print dialog. Remove the Adobe PDF Printer in OS X System Preferences (happens automatically on update/upgrade of Acrobat from 9.0). There is also an Adobe Tech Note on the subject. You can find detailed information and the workaround on the InDesign Secrets blog here. There was a change to the way OS X handles PDF, introduced in Snow Leopard, that changed (well, trashed) the standard Adobe Print to PDF workflow.

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