If you want to permanently and forever, make it go away do this:
with Word/Excel/PowerPoint quit:
Go to finder and do find file:
You should locate three versions.
one for Word
one for Excel
one for PowerPoint
Create three blank Folders.
rename each folder with one of the file names including the extension.
It might be easier to copy the names and paste to the folders.
Now click on the enclosing folder for each file.
move the offending file to trash and move the appropriately named folder
to the folder the file was removed from.
Repeat for the other files.
Empty Trash.
Now open each application and the PDFMaker Icon will not be there.
This trick depends upon logic built into OSX, OS9, and possibly UNIX or
Linux. But not necessarily MSWindows. Last tried using windows (W3.11
and w95) as long as the name was exactly the same anything could replace
anything.
You can't replace a file with a folder, and you can't replace a folder
with a file.
Because you (adobe) are trying to replace the folder named so-in-so with
a file named so-in-so; it fails.
Adobe with Acrobat has adopted the some times desirable, but most times
not, procedure called self healing. Office2004 also has it.
If Adobe detect the file is missing as soon as it is opened it will
attempt to reinstall it. Office on the other hand if discovers a file
missing it attempts to locate and reinstall it.
So unless you can find a way to turn it off at both ends, at the exact
same time, it will show up like a bad penny. I've gone through it myself
and know. It will frustrate you and tempt you into taking a hammer to
your computer.
This is also one reason why it corrupts so easy and almost never works
as intended. because both applications are trying to replace it if
defective, or missing.
In OS9 days and Office2001 just the presence of PDFMaker would cause
Word to take 5 minutes to load.
On OSX and 2004 you would go through the motions of it creating a PDF
get 90% done and then just sit forever. If you clicked on the PDFMaker
icon in the dock. It would just die and go away.
And on OSX with the ability to create PDF from OSX print menu's create
PDF method, or choose the adobePS print Driver if you have Acrobat. Its
redundant anyway.
John said:
Yes. Quit Word. Search your hard disk for each instance of PDFMaker.dot
and move them to your desktop.
There should be two of them: the one in the Word/Startup folder is the one
that is actually loading every time Word starts, the one in the Applications
folder is the one that Adobe uses to re-instate the first one every time you
delete it. If it can't find either, the problem is fixed.
If you sometimes actually "use" PDFMaker, move the copy of PDFMaker.dot out
of the Applications folder and into one of your Templates folders (any one
except the one containing Normal template will do).
Now start Word and use Tools>Templates and Add-ins>Add to add the thing to
Word as a global template. The PDF Maker toolbar will reappear.
Now quit Word, and save if prompted.
Now restart Word and go to Tools>Templates and Add-ins and uncheck the
PDFMaker.dot template. Unload it, but do not Delete it.
Quit and restart Word again. The PDF Maker toolbar should now go away and
stay away. Whenever you want to use it, simply go to Tools>Templates and
Add-ins: You will find the template listed as an available global add-in.
Simply check the checkbox to load it. Make sure you uncheck it again before
closing Word to unload it.
Provided that it was unloaded the last time Word quit, a global add-in will
remain unloaded next time Word starts. Provided you have moved the copy
from the Adobe folder in Applications, Acrobat "should" not be able to
reinstate it to the Word Startup folder each time Acrobat runs.
If you get problems, create a blank file in the Word Startup Folder named
PDFMaker.dot. Mark it read-only. That should be enough to fool Acrobat.
Cheers
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