Difficulty Printing PDF's in MS Word

[snorman]

We have the MS Office for Mac, version X, student & teacher addition.
Recently we found we can no longer print a Word document in PDF,
although we have no difficulty printing documents in Excel and other
Office components into PDF. When we try to print a Word document we do
not get any error message, just a very quick "progress bar" (1/2
second in length) and nothing more. Has anyone else had any experience
with this?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

We have the MS Office for Mac, version X, student & teacher addition.
Recently we found we can no longer print a Word document in PDF,
although we have no difficulty printing documents in Excel and other
Office components into PDF. When we try to print a Word document we do
not get any error message, just a very quick "progress bar" (1/2
second in length) and nothing more. Has anyone else had any experience
with this?

Are you trying to do that through an Acrobat add-on bar or through the
regular Print dialogs??
When you use the Print command (in any app in MacOS X), the lower left
corner of the Print dialog offers you a PDF button. You can use it to
create a PDF of your document.

If you have Acrobat, you can alo print to a "virtual acrobat printer"
which will then use Distiller instead of the MacOS Engine to create the
PDF. (actually, I find that the Acrobat toolbar is a nuisance and I'd
much rather use the virtual printer).

Corentin

 

[snorman]

Are you trying to do that through an Acrobat add-on bar or through the

regular Print dialogs??
When you use the Print command (in any app in MacOS X), the lower left
corner of the Print dialog offers you a PDF button. You can use it to
create a PDF of your document.

If you have Acrobat, you can alo print to a "virtual acrobat printer"
which will then use Distiller instead of the MacOS Engine to create the
PDF. (actually, I find that the Acrobat toolbar is a nuisance and I'd
much rather use the virtual printer).

Corentin

I've tried it several ways, each with no success:
- using the MacOS print screen and its PDF button in the lower left
corner;
- using the MS toolbar and its Adobe command at the far left end; and
- using the MacOS print screen and its printer selector along the top
edger, selecting a virtual Adobe PDF. Thanks for any suggestions! I'm
rather desperate and am almost to the point of upgrading to MS Office
2004 for Mac, and to Adobe Acrobat Professional v. 8.0 in the hopes
that the problem will go away.

 

[Elliott Roper]

We have the MS Office for Mac, version X, student & teacher addition.
Recently we found we can no longer print a Word document in PDF,
although we have no difficulty printing documents in Excel and other
Office components into PDF. When we try to print a Word document we do
not get any error message, just a very quick "progress bar" (1/2
second in length) and nothing more. Has anyone else had any experience
with this?

Page Set Up, change the printer, and try again.
Tell us which version of OS X you are on, The printing menus and
facilities are different.

As a first guess, you are a bit tangled up with Adobe's distiller and
the built-in print dialog PDF production.

Can you print to postscript printers OK?
Using the print dialog, can you save as postscipt ( dialog varies with
OS version). Does the .ps file open in Preview, and can you save that
as PDF?

 

[snorman]

This afternoon (prior to your last posts) we upgraded our Adobe
Acrobat Professional software to Mac version 8.1.0, our MS Office for
Mac to version 1.3.6 (and from "X" to "2004"). The problem did not
endure through those changes. We can print PDF's again, in grand
style! For our office, our troubles with MS Office X and Acrobat v.6
will remain a mystery, although I suspect you're right about6 our
somehow getting Acrobat Distiller tangled-up. Thanks to all - you're
the greatest!
Best,
Stephen

 

[Elliott Roper]

This afternoon (prior to your last posts) we upgraded our Adobe
Acrobat Professional software to Mac version 8.1.0, our MS Office for
Mac to version 1.3.6 (and from "X" to "2004"). The problem did not
endure through those changes. We can print PDF's again, in grand
style! For our office, our troubles with MS Office X and Acrobat v.6
will remain a mystery, although I suspect you're right about6 our
somehow getting Acrobat Distiller tangled-up. Thanks to all - you're
the greatest!
Best,

Heh! Somebody went mad with the credit cards. You will like 2004. The
Acrobat seems to be a little less feral too.

Thanks for posting back.