Access 2003 error broken reference to PDFCreator.exe version 2.3

[Fairytale]

In Access 2003 I get an error message that I have a missing or broken
reference to PDFCreator.exe version 2.3. I'm not familar with this error
message and do not know how to fix it. Can anyone help?

 

[Cheese_whiz]

Hi Fairytale,

Check in the visual basic editor under the tools menu for references.
References are essentially pointers to files. If you reference a file and
then access can't find the file anymore, you get a broken reference.

Typically, that happens because a developer will reference a file on his
computer and then distribute his application to users who don't have that
referenced file on their computers. Often, the file in question is part of
some application software that the developer has downloaded/installed on his
computer but which is not typically found on his users computers. Sometimes,
it can be a case where the developer has one version of some software and the
users have another version and so the filename is different.

HTH,
CW

 

[John W. Vinson]

In Access 2003 I get an error message that I have a missing or broken
reference to PDFCreator.exe version 2.3. I'm not familar with this error
message and do not know how to fix it. Can anyone help?

If you're not actually using PDFCreator as part of you app, just remove it:

open the VBA editor
Select Tools... References
Uncheck the checkbox by PDFCreator
Close the References window
(just to be on the safe side close and open Access)
Open the VBA editor again and select Debug... Compile
Compact and repair the database to clean up

You might find that this has broken something else; if there is code which
references the library, you'll get an error when you try to run it. Then
you'll need to decide whether to remove or comment out that code, or obtain
the PDFCreator program from its source.