Problems with embedded PDF in Word document

[thomas.b.pedersen]

I know there has been a thread about this before, but I didn't see a
resolution to the problem. My problem is that PC users send me Word
documents that have PDF files in them and I need to get them extracted
somehow.

When I double click on the embedded object in Word, I get the error
message "Word cannot locate the server application for
AcroExxch.Document.7 objects". I have tried to copy and paste the
document to the desktop, but that doesn't work either. And there is no
"Save object to disk" option in the menu when I right click the object.

Do I REALLY have to ask one of my PC colleagues to help me? That is
just too embarrassing.

Thomas

 

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

Hi Thomas:

Yes, I am afraid you will have to suffer the PC people.

If there's a solution out there, I can't find it.

It appears that Adobe Reader on the PC is embedding the file with an
application label (AcroExch.Document.7) that Adobe Reader 7.07 on the
Macintosh has not "associated" itself with.

Consequently, when Word asks the operating system "What do I do with this?"
Apple OS replies "I don't know!".

All you have to do is tell Mac OS that calls to AcroExch.Document.7 should
be handed off to Adobe Reader. Of course, anyone who knew how to hack Unix
would solve this in seconds. But I don't...

Sorry!

I know there has been a thread about this before, but I didn't see a
resolution to the problem. My problem is that PC users send me Word
documents that have PDF files in them and I need to get them extracted
somehow.

When I double click on the embedded object in Word, I get the error
message "Word cannot locate the server application for
AcroExxch.Document.7 objects". I have tried to copy and paste the
document to the desktop, but that doesn't work either. And there is no
"Save object to disk" option in the menu when I right click the object.

Do I REALLY have to ask one of my PC colleagues to help me? That is
just too embarrassing.

Thomas

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[CyberTaz]

Hello Thomas-

I played with this on the Mac for some time trying everything I could think
of to reproduce the problem & couldn't, so I fully agree with John that it
originates on the PC.

One thing that may help is to have the PC users send you copies of the PDFs
as well as the docs in which they're embedded. Apparently, however, that
isn't an option?

Are the PDFs embedded as Icons or as readable content? If the latter, have
you tried printing the doc, itself, as a PDF file, then opening it in
Acrobat to extract the content?

Regards |:>)

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Yes, I am afraid you will have to suffer the PC people.

If there's a solution out there, I can't find it.

It appears that Adobe Reader on the PC is embedding the file with an
application label (AcroExch.Document.7) that Adobe Reader 7.07 on the
Macintosh has not "associated" itself with.

Consequently, when Word asks the operating system "What do I do with this?"
Apple OS replies "I don't know!".

All you have to do is tell Mac OS that calls to AcroExch.Document.7 should
be handed off to Adobe Reader. Of course, anyone who knew how to hack Unix
would solve this in seconds. But I don't...

The usual way of doing that is pretty simple. Try it and see if it works.
Try to extract the AcroExch.Document.7 file on its own, to the desktop or
anywhere. If you can't, ask someone on a PC to send you one if they can or,
frankly, just make a bogus one by creating a copy of any file (simplest:
save a document from TextEdit) ad then change the extension on the file by
adding ".7". (When the OS checks that you really want to do this, confirm
so.)

Then do a Get Info on the file - right-click (or control-click) and choose
Get Info, or just select and press cmd-I. In the Info window, select Opens
With. choose "Other..." and browse to Adobe Reader 7.0.x in /Applications.

***Then click the "Change All" button below.

Now all ".7" (what a stupid extension name Adobe chose, against all
conventions on Windows, Mac OS and Unix, even if they _think_ they chose
".Document.7") files will open with Adobe Reader. It _should_ work for the
embedded files too, but you'll have to test it to see.

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