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Yes Natobasso & Clivey! Dont waste your time printing them to disk "save as" directly to pdf from illustrator. CS2 also manages your distiller settings across your adobe apps for consistent pdf creation. Delete any old printers you were using before your upgrade and create them again. You might also check for the most current acrobat ppd. I make many pdf every day but never do use the acrobat ppd. I am most familiar with the scitex brisque ppds. They make perfect high quality ppd for just about any intended use. Also I have run into a couple problems creating pdf in the 800 to 900 mb range When the volume that the file resides on and the destination i am printing to are different example are you printing to a server. We have some issues printing from large fiber channel raid volumes to slower gigbit server volumes but usually only when the pdf start getting big say over 1GB or so. Anyway printing to your local drive may help. good luck. P.S. I have seen this problem before. And I think you are seeing a problem with acrobat so your headed in the right direction. Check adobe for tiger issues. Most my machines run tiger pretty much trouble free. Knock on wood