Re: pdf Toolbar Always Loads

From: Dayo Mitchell (dayomitchell_1997_at_NOhotmailSPAM.com.invalid)
Date: 07/20/04

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    Yes, creating via Adobe is different than creating via the OS mechanism,
    that's why they can charge more money for it. :) Not using this exact
    configuration myself (yet), but I believe Acrobat has two ways to create
    PDFs--PDFMaker (the toolbar) and Distiller. The Acrobat help should have an
    explanation of the differences. You can use Distiller w/o the toolbar.

    Apparently if you have room to drag the Adobe toolbar to the end of a
    different toolbar, it may stay there and annoy you less. Or there is a way
    to run a macro on startup that will hide the toolbar for you, but should
    leave the printer selection available, but someone else will have to help
    with that....

    Conventional wisdom on this problem is that Adobe writes sloppy add-ins that
    don't behave properly, and do things like show up even though you uncheck
    it. It behaves the same in WinWord.
    >
    > Does this mean that even if Microsoft fixes the problem that I'm stuck
    > with it because of the Student and Teacher Edition? TIA... Jim
    I am not sure what you mean by this....STEs are not usually upgradable
    (upgrade defined as buying a new version at less than full price) but they
    are updatable (update defined as a downloaded patch that fixes a bug, but is
    not a new version). Does that clarify?

    DM

    On 7/20/04 1:42 AM, "Jim" wrote:

    > I have discovered that users that have Adobe Acrobat installed are able
    > to create a pdf file that is different... and smaller than a pdf that is
    > created by the "Save As PDF..." in the Print window. This is accessed as
    > a printer selection called "Adobe PDF" in the Print window.
    >
    > I created a pdf each way from the same document. One was 76 KB and the
    > other was 540 KB... Jim
    >
    > In article <BD21D876.8D25%mickey.stevens@mvps.org>,
    > Mickey Stevens <mickey.stevens@mvps.org> wrote:
    >
    >> On 7/19/04 6:52 PM, in article
    >> NOnetSPAM4rj-E4D242.16524519072004@corp.supernews.com, "Jim"
    >> <NOnetSPAM4rj@saber.net> wrote:
    >>
    >>> Thanks for solution. Does this mean that by removing the file, creating
    >>> pdf files via Print window is the only way to do so?.. or is there a
    >>> Menu command that I have not found yet that will do the same as the
    >>> buttons on the removed Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar?
    >>
    >> There is no built-in way to do it other than via the OS option in the print
    >> dialog. I don't have Adobe Acrobat, so I don't know if Acrobat offers
    >> another way to create PDFs from Word. Maybe someone in the Word newsgroup
    >> <microsoft.public.mac.office.word> or the Adobe Acrobat forum knows.
    >> <http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html>
    >>
    >>> Also, does removing similar file for Excel and PowerPoint eliminate the
    >>> pdf toolbar from these apps as well? TIA... Jim
    >>
    >> I think so.
    >>
    >>> In article <BD21B729.8CDA%mickey.stevens@mvps.org>,
    >>> Mickey Stevens <mickey.stevens@mvps.org> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> This page on the Word MVP FAQ site discusses add-ins with regard to Word
    >>>> for
    >>>> Mac.
    >>>> <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Add-Ins.htm>
    >>>>
    >>>> This is the troubleshooting procedure they give:
    >>>> " Quit Word and open Words Startup folder: /Applications/Microsoft Office
    >>>> (X or 2004)/Office/Startup/Word. Drag the contents to the Desktop. "
    >>>>
    >>>> Basically, all you need to do is remove the PDFMaker toolbar from that
    >>>> folder to keep it from launching.

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