Office 2003 removed Adobe PDF 5.05

[Joshcat99]

I used to have Adobe Acrobat PDF icon on my toolbar in Word 2002. I recently
installed Office 2003, and the icon is no longer there, and I can't figure
out how to save a Word document as a PDF file - there is nothing on the menu
bars that will allow me to do that, and PDF is not listed as Files of Type in
the Save As dialog box. I reloaded Adobe Acrobat 5.05, but that didn't do
the trick. Any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

You don't save as a .pdf file, you print it using the PDF driver.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

A few things to check:
1. In Word, click on Tools | Options | File Locations, to see
where your Word startup folder is. Make sure the PDFMAKER.DOT
and PDFMAKERA.DOT files are in your Word startup folder.
2. In Word, click on Tools | Macro | Security | Security
Level. If your macro security level is set to High, then either
change the security level to Medium, or add Adobe to the list of
trusted sources. See
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052356731033.aspx
"Modify the list of trusted publishers for macros" for more
information on how to do the latter.
3. In Word, click on Tools | Templates and Add-ins. Under
"Global templates and add-ins", is PDFMaker.dot listed as a
choice, and is it checked?
4. In Word, click on View | Toolbars. Is PDFMaker listed as
a choice, and is it checked?

 

[Mark Tangard]

As I recall, Adobe Acrobat 5.x isn't compatible with Office 2003 (or
with Word & Excel 2003 at least) and you ordinarily get a message
announcing this when opening the Office program, if Acrobat 5.x is
installed. (Hmm, or maybe not if macro security is set to Very High.)
I doubt Office has "removed" Acrobat, but it sure can send a spike
through its leg.

I've seen Convert-to-PDF continue to work (the message gives you the
option to "Continue Anyway" or disable the Adobe add-in), and I've seen
PDF requests get totally ignored. Printing directly to the 5.x
Distiller is equally weird in Office 2003, and of course, also omits
some features you get from converting directly via PDFMaker. (In case
you're new to that, be aware that printing to the Distiller and using
the Acrobat toolbar buttons isn't the same thing.) The usual advice
heard is: upgrade Acrobat.

Which isn't as simple as it sounds. I've had major problems PDFing from
Acrobat 6 (loss of tracked changes, no Acrobat bookmarks vanishing,
etc.). These seem resolved with Acrobat 7, but 7 has its own fresh
quirks. Adobe seems determined to bring us all to our knees....

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Actually I was using Acrobat 5.x with Office 2003 until recently. Worked
fine for me.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It worked here too - provided you have the most recent update to the add-in.

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