PDF Maker not working

[CJ]

Hello All,

I have never been able to get the PDF Maker within word to function. I
click on the Create PDF icon in the toolbar, I get prompted for a file
name, I enter that and then I see that my Printer Utility opens in the
back ground. Word displays a "Acrobat PDFMaker" status window. The
progresss bar will move to about the 90% mark and then just hang there
forever. I can switch to the finder and it doesn't seem like a file
has been created anywhere. I can cancel the operation and return to
using Word without any problem. I just can figure out why this action
won't ever complete. I know I can Print and then do a print to PDF
document, but I like the one-click option if it would work. Hopefully
someone knows of a common cause for this problem.

Thanks,
Chris

G5 dual 2GHZ, 1MB Ram, OS 10.3.9, Office X 10.1.6

 

[mmmmark]

I've not experienced the problems you mention on the PC side. A good clean
system seems to make it hum along without any problems. If you are using XP
SP2 and Office 2003, you shouldn't have any troubles with it. I recall some
difficulties back in Win2000 days, but lately everything has been peachy.
<hopefully not jinxing myself by writing this> ;-)

PDFMaker is a necessary evil and I couldn't make complex PDFs very easily
without its macros that transfer TOC and cross-doc links.

-Mark

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

You're right: last time it spluttered and died on me (hanging the whole
system!) was at a client site under Windows 2000. That was in March this
year...

I try not to use it So I haven't used it since!

Cheers

I've not experienced the problems you mention on the PC side. A good clean
system seems to make it hum along without any problems. If you are using XP
SP2 and Office 2003, you shouldn't have any troubles with it. I recall some
difficulties back in Win2000 days, but lately everything has been peachy.
<hopefully not jinxing myself by writing this> ;-)

PDFMaker is a necessary evil and I couldn't make complex PDFs very easily
without its macros that transfer TOC and cross-doc links.

-Mark

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[mmmmark]

Do you not want a clickable TOC or links in your PDF or are you recreating
them or what?

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

I don't want a PDF

It's not a lot of use for the kind of work I do. Most of my published
information is to be re-used by someone, often for several different
purposes.

So I tend to exchange data in Word .doc, XML or HTML formats.

I have very few requirements where people need only to "Read" or "Print".

Last time I used PDF was a large RFP where we specifically wanted to prevent
them from changing the document.

Cheers

Do you not want a clickable TOC or links in your PDF or are you recreating
them or what?

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[mmmmark]

Re: PDF Maker not workingScott,


We use the PC version for creating PDFs since it does a better job of preserving TOC links and heading styles.



I have to strongly disagree with you John...


If you are using PDFMaker..keep using it. Yes, you can print to the Adobe PDF printer, but any dynamic content (hyperlinks, for example) will be lost. Since the current version of PDFMaker won't convert Word Heading styles to PDF Bookmarks, if you have Table of Contents in Word, it will not have links. (This has been a MAJOR gripe for us with Adobe.)