Stop PDF Maker

[John Dough]

After you run Adobe Acrobat 6.0 on your system it leaves an annoying little
artifact on your system -- there are auto-open macros which activate the PDF
palettes on your Office X toolbars added to the startup directories for your
Office applications (PDFMaker.dot; PDFMaker.xla; PDFMaker.ppa).

You can delete these files, but the next time you run Acrobat they are
created again and deposited in their appropriate locations. If you don't
want the PDF palettes visible on your toolbars, then you have to close it.

This is awfully annoying and I don't understand Adobe's logic in forcing
this on us. Why can't Adobe and Microsoft come up with a way to give users
the option of *permanently* disabling this palette it they wish?

In lieu of that, I'm asking anyone out there who might know how to use
AppleScript or some other appropriate program to put together a small applet
which would serve to delete the aforementioned little macros every time one
runs and closes Acrobat.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi John,

The problem you describe is one of the most common complaints that I know
about.

You can send your thoughts to Adobe in the form of a "feature request" at
this URL
http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html

Clearly Adobe wants this behavior to occur. They've received countless
complaints about it but still persist in keeping it this way.

A could easily correct the Adobe mistake if only I could find the time to
make it nice. You can get an idea of how to make such a macro by turning
the macro recorder on in Word then going to the Add-Ins portion of the Tools
menu and removing the Adobe add-in. You can make your macro run
automatically when you start Word by naming the macro Autpen()

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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