how to get adobe pdf menu on my microsoft menu?

[Heather5]

I am trying to create a PDF using PDFMaker. And it askes me to click on the
Adobe PDF menu and choose Change Conversion Settings but the Adobe PDF button
is not on my Tool bar. How do I get it there?

 

[Bear]

Heather:

I think it depends on which version of Acrobat you're using. I can only
speak about V6.0. For that version, you have to install the Word macros
during the installation of Acrobat.

The result is that there's a PDFMaker.dot file placed in your Startup folder
for Office. That's what puts the Acrobat menu in the menu bar, and makes the
Acrobat Toolbar available for you to display or not.

Bear

 

[Lene Fredborg]

Even if the PDFMaker.dot file is installed, the menus may be missing (I have
seen this very often). Below is a workaround and some additional comments:

First you must make sure that PDFMaker.dot is listed and turned on in Tools

Templates and Add-Ins.

Normally, you should have two Adobe menu items in the Menu Bar: "Adobe PDF"
and "Acrobat Comments" plus a small toolbar, "PDFMaker [version number]".
Even if the add-in is listed and checked, the menus may not appear - the
Adobe menus are not that reliable, especially if you have more add-ins
installed that also add menus to the Menu Bar.

Instead of trying to fix the problem so that the menus are displayed
correctly (which may be hard), you can do this:
1. Press Alt+F8 to open the Macros dialog box.
2. In the "Macros in" field, select "PDFMaker.dot".
3. In the list of macros, select the macro named DoPrefsForm and click Run.
This will open the dialog box that should normally be opened via the "Change
Conversion Settings" command from the Adobe PDF menu (the title in the dialog
box is "Acrobat PDFMaker").

The command for creating a PDF file using the specified settings can also be
run from the Macros dialog box - find the macro named ConvertToPDF (same
command as run by "Convert to Adobe PDF" in the (missing) Adobe PDF menu).
Note that the "Convert to Adobe PDF"command is also found as the first icon
in the PDFMaker toolbar, so even if the Adobe menus are missing, you may have
access to that command - as opposed to the Adobe menus, the toolbar is
difficult to get rid of!

You will also find a number of suggestions in Adobe's knowledge base, the
article "PDFMaker is unavailable in a Microsoft Office application":

Acrobat 7.0 on Windows:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330984.html

Acrobat 6.x on Windows XP or 2000:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328909.html

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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

 

[jkmac]

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thank you,john