Access 2003 and Adobe PDFMaker 6.0

[Brucels]

How do I get the Adober PDFMaker 6.0 toolbar to show in the dropdown list of
available toolbars in Access 2003? It appears in all of the other Microsoft
Office 2003 applications, but I cannot get it to show in Access, and I am
unable to print to a PDF using the Adobe PDF driver.

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

How do I get the Adober PDFMaker 6.0 toolbar to show in the dropdown list
of
available toolbars in Access 2003? It appears in all of the other
Microsoft
Office 2003 applications, but I cannot get it to show in Access, and I am
unable to print to a PDF using the Adobe PDF driver.

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

I'm not sure I really understand the problem here? You mean when you preview
a report, you then go file and print and you cannot select the Adobe pdf
printer driver?

Being able to print to the pdf diver has no relationship whatsoever to the
fact that you have an icon on the toolbar. You smiply preview the report,
and then use the print option, and select the pdf printer...

Do note in place of a purchasing the adobe pdf printer driver, you can use a
free PCs creator utility here, and the beauty is you don't have to install
the software or even a printer driver

http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm

 

[Brucels]

I can select the Adobe PDF print driver, but it does not complete the process
and results in an error message.

I cannot get the Adobe PDF toolbar to appear in Access, although it appears
in all other Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

I am inclined, as you suggest, to remove Adobe Acrobat and go with one of
the freeware PDF makers. I thought Acrobat would be better, but it work
inconsistently, in my experience.

Bruce

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I cannot get the Adobe PDF toolbar to appear in Access, although it appears
in all other Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

I am inclined, as you suggest, to remove Adobe Acrobat and go with one of
the freeware PDF makers. I thought Acrobat would be better, but it work
inconsistently, in my experience.

Adobe Acrobat is a huge PITA (short for Pain In The *ss). The folks
at Adobe have done a very poor job of adding all kinds of useless
fancy features that cause a lot more trouble than they are worth.

One example is that Toolbar added in Word and Excel. Now it's likely
been fixed now but one thing it would do in the past was to "mark" a
Word or Excel file as having been updated even though you had only
just opened it. Causing the "Do you want to save" message when you
closed a file without making any changes.

Tony
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[david]

They fixed the massive problems caused in Access by the automatic
installation of that toolbar by removing automatic installation to Access?

Or has it just been disabled on your PC because of the massive
problems it caused? Check the PDFMaker installation: there may
be an option that controls this.

Check this url for some suggestions:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330984&sliceId=2

(david)

 

[Brucels]

Thanks to all for your advice. I have elected to completely remove PDFMaker
from my computer and use pdf995 as I did for many years before I was given a
copy of PDFMaker.

The curious thing is that, when I initially installed PDFMaker, printing to
its driver from Access worked fine. When I tried to do the same recently from
Word, I got error messages. That was when I did the PDFMaker toolbar
activation in Word. Thereafter, printing to the driver from Access started
giving me error messages.

Bottom line: I'm glad I didn't have to pay for PDFMaker!

Bruce

 

[a a r o n . k e m p f]

wow Tony; I've got to actually agree with your there.

Acrobat is probably the one product out there --- that is slower and
less reliable than even JET.

-Aaron