Word 2004 for Mac & PDF creation

[JOtto]

I have just upgraded to Word 2004 for Mac. I am trying to create a
PDF of a Word doc. I was able to do this in Word 2002 before.
(file/save as/ PDF in dropdown) The PDF option is gone in the new
version.

Any clue on this? Have I missed it or was it removed because of some
tiff between Adobe and Msoft?

I loved that feature in Word 2002 for Mac. I'm definitely bummed if
it is gone for good.

thx.

 

[Elliott Roper]

I have just upgraded to Word 2004 for Mac. I am trying to create a
PDF of a Word doc. I was able to do this in Word 2002 before.
(file/save as/ PDF in dropdown) The PDF option is gone in the new
version.

Any clue on this? Have I missed it or was it removed because of some
tiff between Adobe and Msoft?

I loved that feature in Word 2002 for Mac. I'm definitely bummed if
it is gone for good.

It has gone to a far far better place.
Try the print menu.
Mac OS X has a print to PDF for *everything*
Also, in Panther only, try the print 'output options' save as file
Postscript. That way any eps in your doc will print properly. Preview
will convert the ps to pdf beautifully. (Oops that might be fixed in
2004)

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

OS X lets you create PDFs via the Preview program--Word 2004 might use the
icon for Preview instead of a button spelling out Print to PDF, but it's
still there, in the Print dialog.

It has nothing to do with Adobe unless you actually had Acrobat installed,
in which case you would need to re-install Acrobat, or at least the add-in,
for it to recognize your new Word installation.

PS. There was no Word 2002 for the Mac, that's a windows version. Either
2001 or X.

 

[Bob]

One more variant: if you install the new versions of Acrobat, note that there
is an important update (to 6.02) at Adobe which properly installs an Adobe
PDF printer in the printer slection drop-down (print dialog). This activates
Acrobat Distiller (like the older versions did). I do still have the old MSword
menu-bar icons ("Convert to Adobe PDF" and "Convert to Adode PDF and
e.mail" ). These seem to function through Acrobat distiller (since the
settings I made there get applied).

Bob

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

One more variant: if you install the new versions of Acrobat, note that
there
is an important update (to 6.02) at Adobe which properly installs an Adobe
PDF printer in the printer slection drop-down (print dialog). This activates

Acrobat Distiller (like the older versions did). I do still have the old
MSword
menu-bar icons ("Convert to Adobe PDF" and "Convert to Adode PDF and
e.mail" ). These seem to function through Acrobat distiller (since the
settings I made there get applied).

I got rid of the toolbar. It slows down the launch time and all the functions
are available through the Print menu (from he Adobe PDF printer).


Corentin

 

[Clive Huggan]

I got rid of the toolbar. It slows down the launch time and all the functions
are available through the Print menu (from he Adobe PDF printer).


Corentin

James,

If you want to get rid of the PDFMaker toolbars, my notes may help:

GETTING RID OF PDFMAKER.DOT

From the microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup, 20­22 July 2004;
work-around by creating folders was John McGimpsey¹s idea:

If you have Adobe Acrobat, it will gratuitously create a PDFMaker.dot add-in
file in the ~/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/Word folder
(and similarly in the Excel and PowerPoint folders). This add-in will cause
a 2-button PDF-making toolbar to appear whenever you open Word. If you don¹t
want these buttons (and an associated slow-down in launching Word), these
are the steps to take:

1. In the Finder, do a "Find" for "PDFMaker". You will probably discover
in three Startup folders a file beginning with this word ‹ namely
PDFMaker.dot, PDFMaker.xla and PDFMaker.ppa. Trash the files.

2. In place of each of them, create a new folder with the names,
respectively, of PDFMaker.dot, PDFMaker.xla and PDFMaker.ppa.

3. If you have a bad memory like me, create an extra folder in each case
with a title that explains what the folder is for.

4. When you open Acrobat you may be told there is a discrepancy and asked
whether you want it repaired. Click "Don't ask me again" and "No" to the
repair question; then Acrobat/Distiller will open, but the toolbars will
stop appearing in Word.

Subsequently, a poster on another newsgroup cited "One change I've
definitely caught it making is clearing the 'Update fields' box in Print
Options every time I create a PDF."


Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe,
so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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