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Subject:Re: 'Adobe PDF' problem with Word -- Fixed From:"Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> To:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:53:56 +0000
On 29/11/2007, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> Thank you for all the replies. Thought I would fill you in on what
> finally worked.
>
> I could find no pdfmaker.dot file on my system.
Acrobat 8 implements PDFMaker as a COM add-in, not as a global
template, so you wouldn't see a copy of PDFMaker.dot.
> "Take a look at Help - About Microsoft Word - Disabled Items, and see if
> the
> Adobe PDF stuff is listed there as disabled. If so, then try enabling
> and
> see if that fixes things."
>
> It did fix things. Imagine that. Until next time.
PDFMaker has no business leaving the menu in normal.dot when it isn't
loaded & in use. In fact, it has no business changing normal.dot at
all.
Regards
Jonathan West
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