Missing Print Progress Bar--bug or feature?

Since upgrading to Acrobat 8 Professional (v. 8.1.2) on a Mac Intel Quad-core
running OS X 10.5.1, there is no progress bar when printing. I only know that
printing is done by hovering over the "stoplight" buttons and noticing
when they become responsive again. (The window itself does not become active
until I click in it.) It's as if there *is* a progress bar window somewhere, but
it's not visible, and it's not giving up "front window" status when
it's done.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior? It's not affecting function, it's merely
annoying. But with the radical redesign of the interface from Acrobat 7 to
Acrobat 8, I can't tell if this is a bug or a feature. Any insight will be
welcome.

Thanks,

I am replying to this just to bump it up.
I have been checking on this post occasionally because I too want to know why
there isn't a progress bar, or if there is one where to enable it.
It is really only necessary when I am printing a pdf with many pages.

For a fairly unhelpful addendum to the discussion, search for the thread
"Acrobat Print Progress Bar." (Basically, an "I don't see what
the problem is" answer.) We find the lack of a progress bar annoying,
because printing puts the screen in the same state as a soft crash does--that
is, a spinning beach ball. User feedback used to be considered a good thing in
GUIs. Apparently now the philosophy is, "trust us--everything's going just
fine." Except, of course, when it doesn't. The past eight years in the US
should show us how well that works.

I am new to this problem, having recently upgraded to Intel Macs from Acrobat
Pro 7. There is another issue that seems to have been missed both in this thread
and the other one referenced by David above. When the progress bar is on-screen,
there is also a cancel button. So now you have the situation where Acrobat is
unable to report how far through a print job it is and you are also disallowed
from cancelling the job without resorting to a Force Quit... Now, that's the
sort of usability I'd pay good money for! The problem doesn't occur using a
PowerMac G5, so the functionality is there, it just doesn't translate to the
Intel platform. Adobe Reader 9 also prints without a progress bar, so it looks
like the problem is here to stay unless a fuss is made and this becomes a 'known
issue'

Good points, Simon; my colleagues and I weren't aware that it was only an Intel
problem, since we still use Acrobat 7 on our G5s.