Unable to find Adobe PDF resource file. “Acrobat PDFMaker” “You must have administrator privileges to install these files. Please contact your local system administrator.

Issue

Error message “Unable to find Adobe PDF resource file.” “Acrobat PDFMaker” “You must have administrator privileges to install these files. Please contact your local system administrator.”

Unable to find Adobe PDF resource file. "Acrobat PDFMaker" You must have administrator privileges to install these files. Please contact your local system administrator.

Resolution

To fix this error, launch the Acrobat setup and select Modify
Uninstall Acrobat PDFMaker
Relaunch Acrobat Setup, modify, and select/reinstall Acrobat PDFMaker

Background

System was a clean install of Vista (system previously XP), Acrobat was setup and PageMaker was installed. Possible cause of this issue may have stemmed from PageMaker installing Acrobat Distiller 5.0 (Current Acrobat install was Acrobat Professional 7.1).

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