Acrobat 8 & Word 2007 under Vista Enterprise

[Chris Barnes]

Ok, I don't have the foggiest idea which program is to blame here.
I don't think it's Acrobat 8 since I was running that under XP w/ Office
2003 just fine (and don't see a new version for installing under Vista).

On *this* document...


I am trying to create a simple .pdf document from Word 2007. I go to
Print & select Adobe PDF as the printer. Word just sits there forever
in the "preparing to background print the document" stage.


Ok, so I close that and open Acrobat, select Create PDF (from file) and
pick the .doc file (word 2003 compatibility here). It almost
immeadiately tells me there are missing PDFMaker files and wants to run
in "repair mode", where it seems to want to reinstall.

So I do.

After a while, it (the acrobat install) tells me it can't find
AdobePDF.dll (even though it was installed just fine, and is in the .cab
file on the cd). So I extract the file from the cab, put it in the
folder, and point to it. Acrobat's installer now seems happier.

After rebooting (required by the install), I try it again and the same
situation comes up, where the whole process starts all over again.



So what is the answer here?

 

[tomlives2000]

You can download an addin that will add save as pdf from the word 2007. It
is on the office website.

 

[Guest]

Or you can download and install pdf995, which works very well.

 

[Chris Barnes]

You can download an addin that will add save as pdf from the word 2007. It
is on the office website.

That *did* help, although with a couple of side-step hacks:

* I had to validate using the "alternative method"
* I saved the addon file, then had to run it as Administrator


Even though this did work, it would still be nice to get Acrobat to work.