Template Problem with Adobe Acrobat

[Paul Tholfsen]

I just installed Adobe Acrobat 6.0 on my system (WinXP Home + Office 2000).
Now when I fire up Word or Excel, Adobe adds a toolbar to my normal.dot and
book.xlt files. I was able to get permanently rid of it in the excel
template.

I tried deselecting the toolbar in Word, and saving the resulting template
as normal.dot. But like Dracula, the Adobe toolbar keeps coming out of the
coffin. How can i drive the wooden stake through its heart.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To do this you must remove the PDFMaker.dot and PDFMakerA.dot add-ins from
Word's Startup folder. This will remove some of the Adobe functionality from
Word, but you can still create PDFs (I'm told) by printing to the "Adobe
PDF" printer (apparently no longer called Distiller?).

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[Graham Mayor]

Fellow MVP Klaus Linke came up with a bright solution to this - see
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
however this article was based on Acrobat 5.0 and you will need to make
minor and obvious modifications to the code for Acrobat 6.

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[Klaus Linke]

Fellow MVP Klaus Linke came up with a bright solution to this - see

http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm
however this article was based on Acrobat 5.0 and you will need to make
minor and obvious modifications to the code for Acrobat 6.

Actually a co-production between Steve Rindsberg, Graham, Jonathan West,
and me.
With me getting everything wrong, and the others fixing it ;-)

If the code on Graham's page only makes the toolbar disappear for a second,
and it comes back from the dead, you might try Jonathan West's suggestion
to remove the toolbar a few seconds after Word has started, with a macro
that uses "OnTime":

Sub AutoExec()
Application.OnTime .OnTime _
When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), _
Name:="ZapEm"
End Sub

Sub ZapEm()
Dim i As Long

For i = 1 To Application.CommandBars.Count
If InStr(UCase(Application.CommandBars(i).Name), "PDFMAKER") > 0 Then
Application.CommandBars(i).Visible = False
End If
Next x
End Sub

This code can be in any template (including Normal.dot), since the code is
supposed to run after any templates or add-ins have been loaded, anyway.
If your templates and add-ins take more than three seconds to load, you
might have to wait a bit longer [= change When:=Now +
TimeValue("00:00:03") ]

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

Sorry, had two typos in the code:

Sub AutoExec()
Application.OnTime _
When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), _
Name:="ZapEm"
End Sub

Sub ZapEm()
Dim i As Long

For i = 1 To Application.CommandBars.Count
If InStr(UCase(Application.CommandBars(i).Name), "PDFMAKER") > 0 Then
Application.CommandBars(i).Visible = False
End If
Next i
End Sub

Klaus

 

[Mark Tangard]

Actually the Distiller and the PDF printer aren't the same, and
they create slightly different PDFs. There's a list of the
differences squirreled away deep in the Acrobat documentation,
but for Word users the most important is that the Distiller
doesn't go through the file generating various higher-level
features in the PDF. Probably the most noteworthy of these
are Acrobat's navigational bookmarks, created automatically
from paragraphs set in Word's built-in heading styles. The
PDFs produced by the Distiller don't have this, and are, among
other things, smaller

(Acrobat navigational bookmarks are similar to Word's Document Map) (except it
works....)