Adobe Acrobat invasion

[C.F.Scheel]

I use WORD 2002 and WIN XP.
Recently, I installed Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Now that program has invaded my WORD with new items
in the tool bars.
Worse, WORD no longer saves changes of setup,
e.g. new macros, i.e. does not update Normal.dot.

How do I get rid of the Adobe interference?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Acrobat 7? See the last part of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

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[cfscheel]

Hi Graham,

Many thanks for the info.

Yes I have Acrobat 7.

- We ought to sue companies that trespass on our property...
If one million users spend one hour in removing the nuisance,
that should cost Adobe at least $10 Million in damages...

Christian

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi C.F.,

Adobe has supposedly fixed it in an update:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331259.html

Not sure if the fix works reliably.

Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It would be divided among the users; like the litigants in any other class
action suit, each user would get a dollar or two at most, and the lawyers
would get the lion's share.

Updating to 7.05/7.07 fixes the problem.

I agree with you in principle, but *who* gets the $10M?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi Graham,

Many thanks for the info.

Yes I have Acrobat 7.

- We ought to sue companies that trespass on our property...
If one million users spend one hour in removing the nuisance,
that should cost Adobe at least $10 Million in damages...

Christian

 

[cfscheel]

Yes, but after paying, the perpetrator would hopefully learn to keep
his hands off my WORD-setup without asking nicely in advance. :=|

 

[cfscheel]

Hi Klaus,

Even if they have fixed it, I still protest:
out of principle, no one should invade my WORD setup
without my permission.
It is no less serious than a physical break-and-entry.
- BTW I am not all that impressed
by the Adobe programs anyway.

 

[aalaan]

Completely agree. It is arrogant in the extreme to interfere with
someone's work in another application. Have just tried downloading
acrobat after a complete disk reload. It takes forever, and *after* it
has done everything says that it can't deal with my version of IE (which
is adequate for everything else). However, it put an unusable icon on
my desktop, which was the devil to remove. There was no uninstall
program as such and files are all over the place. The earlier versions
of the product were OK. But now I will never use an adobe product
again, and all my colleagues know not to bother me with any PDF files.
Greed and stupidity will ruin any product in the end.

cfscheel

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You downloaded Acrobat? Are you sure you aren't talking about the Adobe
Reader?

 

[aalaan]

Yes, the reader is what I meant!

You downloaded Acrobat? Are you sure you aren't talking about the Adobe
Reader?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I haven't heard any complaints about invasiveness on the part of the Reader.

Yes, the reader is what I meant!

http://www.opera.com/m2/

 

[Graham Mayor]

It didn't 'invade your Word setup without your permission'. You gave it
permission when you chose to install an application that interfaces with
Word. It works by means of an add-in that adds a toolbar. Adobe, rightly or
wrongly, assumes that if you install that add-in you may actually want it.
If you didn't want the software, why did you buy it? You did buy it?

Word provides the means to control its add-ins. That control is explained in
greater depth in my web site article posted earlier in the thread.

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[Graham Mayor]

Everyone else was talking about the full version of Acrobat which interfaces
directly with Word. The reader is simply that - a means of reading industry
standard PDF files. The only connection with Word is that Reader version 7
will allow you to insert single page PDFs as objects into a document.

The reader can, with some versions of Internet Explorer, integrate with
Explorer to open PDF files from the internet directly in Explorer, otherwise
it acts as an independent application.

It's a free download which doesn't sound so greedy to me - and if you have a
slow internet connection which means that large files take forever to
download, you will find the reader on no end of magazine cover discs and
software installation discs (to allow you to read the software
documentation, which also increasingly is supplied in PDF format).

PDF is an industry standard format used increasingly as the best means of
providing documents over the internet. If you are ever going to read these
forms, then you are not going to be able to avoid using the reader.

Adobe may have its failings, but the PDF format and the means of reading it
are not amongst them.

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