Create Adobe PDF error

[Guest]

Everty time I open Word (XP) I get the message "The create adobe pdf monitor
cannot be found. Please reinstall Create Adobe PDF". I have seen this
message posted before, with a reference that this is not a Word problem, but
rather something with Adobe. I reinstalled Adobe Reader (6.0), but the
problem occurs anyway. Any suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You need to find the add-in that Adobe has placed in Word's (or the Office)
Startup folder and remove it. It points to a facility you no longer have.
Adobe Reader does not have the ability to create PDFs, only to read them; to
create them you need the full Acrobat product or one of its clones.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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[Guest]

You need to go to the file location for Tools to determine where the
erroneous file is located. In word go to Tools | Options | File locations for
file type Tools. Double click on the path and you should see file name
"PDFWRITER97.dot" in Startup folder. Delete this file and that should
eliminate the message.

 

[Jezebel]

Ignore that message. Not sure what causes your problem, but deleting
PDFMaker won't fix it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, it will. The version Graham refers to is an older one that was
distributed with Acrobat Reader, not the full Acrobat product, and doesn't
work with the current Adobe Reader.

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

All I know is that it worked for me and I'm just passing along the info. You
might also want to look in the Microsoft | Word | Startup folder for the same
file to delete. This only deletes the template pdf file that word is trying
to load, not PDFMAKER. I tried several other things but this is the only one
that worked for me.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Whoops! That should have been "The add-in Ralph refers to (PDFWRITER97.dot,
not PDFMaker.dot) is an old one..."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Ralph - it worked for me too.

All I know is that it worked for me and I'm just passing along the info. You
might also want to look in the Microsoft | Word | Startup folder for the same
file to delete. This only deletes the template pdf file that word is trying
to load, not PDFMAKER. I tried several other things but this is the only one
that worked for me.

 

[Guest]

I have this same error. I followed the directions from RalphF, but the
Startup folder had no files listed in it. Is there another way to correct
this error?
Wormster

 

[Graham Mayor]

Later versions of Acrobat install their add-in in the *office* startup
folder which will be at
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP (where 11 is the Word
version - here Word 2003)

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