Saving Word 2007 as pdf

[v8man]

So I know that to save a Word doc as a pdf in 2007 requires going t
"save as" and then hitting pdf. However, in Word 2003, there was a
automatic setup (dialog box) where you could tell Word to apply passwor
protection and security settings automatically to your pdf so that whe
it pdf'ed, it would already be setup according to the basic rules yo
had input. In 2007, saving as a pdf is straightforward, but it require
putting on security settings and password protection every time.

Is there a way to make Word 2007 save pdfs according to a set o
criteria that you input like in 2003?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So I know that to save a Word doc as a pdf in 2007 requires going to
"save as" and then hitting pdf. However, in Word 2003, there was an
automatic setup (dialog box) where you could tell Word to apply password
protection and security settings automatically to your pdf

Not exactly. That was a feature of the PDF add-in installed by Adobe
Acrobat or whatever other PDF-making software you used. Word itself never
made PDFs until Office 2007.

In 2007, saving as a pdf is straightforward, but it requires
putting on security settings and password protection every time.

How exactly are you going about this? When I save from Word as PDF,
there's no option to set a password, and if I save a password protected
document, Word specifically tells me that password protection will be lost
in the PDF>

In short, I don't believe that the MS PDF add-in for Office 2007 supports
password protection.

You should still be able to install and use a compatible version of
Acrobat to make PDFs though.

 

[v8man]

Ahhhh, the add-in. Yeah, I think that's the issue - there's not
supported add-in for Word 2007 that would let you tweak the automati
features so that when you pdf'ed it would have whatever you ha
preferenced automatically on the pdf (e.g., security, passwords, etc.).

Now I just do a "save as pdf" from the main icon in the upper left an
then when you set up security and everything else, it's always after th
fact in the pdf I have created... So since it's not an add-in, is ther
any way to get in to the settings so that you can create automati
preferences...

 

[v8man]

How about this - is it possible to get that add-in back for 2007 so tha
I can adjust the preferences? Just throwing ideas out..

 

[Bob I]

You would have to BUY Adobe Acrobat 8.0 or later if you want a PDF
"Add-in", prior versions of Office have no PDF capabilities at all.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ahhhh, the add-in. Yeah, I think that's the issue - there's not a
supported add-in for Word 2007 that would let you tweak the automatic
features so that when you pdf'ed it would have whatever you had
preferenced automatically on the pdf (e.g., security, passwords, etc.).

I suspect the current version of Adobe Acrobat would support all these
features in 2007, but you'd have to buy the update to Acrobat.

Now I just do a "save as pdf" from the main icon in the upper left and
then when you set up security and everything else, it's always after the
fact in the pdf I have created...

By opening the created PDF in Acrobat, I assume.

So since it's not an add-in, is there
any way to get in to the settings so that you can create automatic
preferences...?

If you still have Acrobat installed, you most likely also have the Adobe
PDF printer driver as well. Open it in Control Panel, go to Preferences
and you'll probably find options for setting open/modify passwords on all
created PDFs. Can't tell you where exactly because I have an older
version of Acrobat.

To use this, print as you would normally rather than saving to PDF. In
the printer dialog box, choose Adobe PDF and print to it.