Re: Office 2007 and Acrobat 8.x

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Thanks to you both. I got the same info from Adobe on this, and yes, G-N-O, I have no problem understanding it. I am waiting on Microsoft to supply the details to Adobe so a patch can be released. (I won't sidetrack on the unrelated issue you mentioned.) With CS3 coming from Adobe soon, my guess is the interoprability will be adressed in that version.

I have also uncovered another related issue with Word *.docx files. These cannot be placed in InDesign CS2. This could be a major prolem in my workflow. Normally, Word is used for simple text entry. All formatting, addition of graphics, etc is done in InDesign. If Office 2007 files are saved in the native "preferred" format, they are unusable by my bread 'n butter application. Major stumbling block. Again CS3 is coming soon and I don't have too many Office 2007 files coming in. Hopefully Microsoft will be collaborating with other vendors to get around this issue of file incompatibility. In the mean time, back to Notepad or ASCII text conversion of DCX files.

Is it the Microsoft implementation of XML that is causing these issues? If so, it seems that not enough advance notice of the specs was given to other vendors.

I know these are a lot of issues, but this is my first day with Office 2007. As a seasoned Office 2000 user, I did not anticipate so many behind the scenes problems. I had hoped the transition would be seamless.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uvtppgHUHHA.920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Funny, I see this as another DSO problem just like your last question. You probably won't see how this applies either, but quoting from http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333504 :

"Acrobat 8 shipped prior to Microsoft Office 2007. Therefore, we are currently actively testing Acrobat with the shipping version of Office 2007 and Office 2007 files. In the first half of 2007, we expect to issue a free Acrobat 8 patch that will provide support for Office 2007.

Acrobat 7.0 and earlier will not support Office 2007 or Office 2007 files."

emanon wrote:

Prior to Office 2007, I had Office 2000. Office 2000 coexisted very nicely with Adobe Acrobat 8.x, thank you very much. I could click on the top bar of Word or Excel and create a PDF for distribution without a problem. I could also click on a file name and painlessly create a PDF for distribution. I could also click ona group of files and publish them combined as a single PDF document.

This no longer is the case. My Create PDF button has totally disappeared from the top bar of all my office aps and I cannot creae PDF documents through point and click methods. The only way to do this is by printing each document as a PDF. PDFs created this way may be combined after the fact, but it makes for a real inconvienent workflow.

Before it is suggested, I am also posting this on Adobe's Acrobat forum for help there. I see this more of a Microsoft problem, however, as that was the last change made to the computer.


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