PDF Maker not working in Office 2004

[John Wiles]

I have tried the PDF maker in Word and Excel 2004 and it seems to be very
slow and the status bar stops about 1/4" short of being "done" and will go
no further. I don't want to use the Print PDF file in the print fucction as the
master digital file output can be several times larger than the input.

Any ideas? Adobe Acrobat 6.2 Pro just says go to the PDF maker in the
word/excel application when you try to open a word document to PDF it.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have tried the PDF maker in Word and Excel 2004 and it seems to be very
slow and the status bar stops about 1/4" short of being "done" and will go
no further. I don't want to use the Print PDF file in the print fucction
as the master digital file output can be several times larger than the
input.

I've had similar problems. I still use the System PDF maker. I just open
the files in Acrobat Pro afterwards and go through the PDF optimizer to
remove the embedded fonts that make the documents so large... It works
like a charm


Corentin

 

[John C. Welch]

I've had similar problems. I still use the System PDF maker. I just open
the files in Acrobat Pro afterwards and go through the PDF optimizer to
remove the embedded fonts that make the documents so large... It works
like a charm

If you just print to the Adobe PDF printer, you get the same benefits as the
Macro, only without the annoying dialogs.

john

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi John,

If you just print to the Adobe PDF printer, you get the same benefits as the
Macro, only without the annoying dialogs.

.... when it works... What John and I were saying is that the Adobe
virtual printer often fails on us and just sits there for ever doing
nothing. In this case, I create the PDF through the system Print to PDF
function and later optimize it in Acrobat.

I NEVER use the macro. I trashed the PDF Maker plug-ins ages ago. It's a
complete waste of CPU cycles...



Corentin